Washington schlepped here : walking in the nation's capital / Christopher Buckley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buckley, Christopher, 1952-

Series:

Crown journeys.

Crown journeys

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Washington Region--Tours.

Washington Region.

Washington (D.C.)--Tours.

Washington (D.C.).

Walking--Washington Region--Guidebooks.

Walking.

Walking--Washington (D.C.)--Guidebooks.

Genre:

Guidebooks.

Tours.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown Publishers, [2003]

Summary:

Washington, D.C., is one of the most written-about and visited cities on the planet. True, it's no Rome, Paris, London, or New York, but if you've been poking around the place as long and as enthusiastically as Chris Buckley has, you're bound to discover bits of local history, lore, and infamy that, for one good reason or another, they tend to leave out of all those travel guides.

In Washington Schlepped Here, Buckley invites us to come along on several walks around the town and shares with us a bit of this other Washington. The walks include: America's Front Yard (The Mall), City of the Dead (Arlington Cemetery), Washington, B.C. (the old aboriginal social haunts of Georgetown), and several other historical journeys. And Buckley proves to be the sort of wonderful guide who pries loose the abalone-like cliches that cling to a place, showing us that even a city whose chief industry is government bureaucracy is a lot funnier and more surprising than it might at first look.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-157).

ISBN:

1400046874

OCLC:

50773298