Ice Tea and Elvis: A Saunter Through the Southern States - Softcover

Middleton, Nick; Middleton, Mick

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9780753810132: Ice Tea and Elvis: A Saunter Through the Southern States

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ISBN 10: 0753810131 ISBN 13: 9780753810132

Publisher: Orion Pub Co, 2000

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God and guns, heat and history have long characterized the American South. As, of course, has Elvis Presley. Nick Middleton (The Last Disco in Outer Mongolia) traveled there with the ostensible aim of discovering the wilder side of human nature. What he found surprised even him. From Graceland to Miami Beach, Dolly Parton to Martin Luther King, the Smoky Mountains to the Mississippi River, Middleton discovered that the American South is, more than anything, a state of mind. A savvy, deliciously irreverent travelogue. In praise of Nick Middleton�s Travels as a Brussels Scout, Publishers Weekly wrote: �His wisecracking journey is a lark, filled with witty, shrewd observations...despite his lighthearted tone, his serendipitous journal speaks volumes.�

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From the author of Travels as a Brussels Scout, a hilarious road tour of the American South ‹ the good, the bad, and the kitschy dished up with a dose of very British humor.

About the Author:

Nick Middleton was born in London. As a geographer he has travelled to more than 50 countries and teaches part-time at Oxford University. As a travel writer he has been accused of drug smuggling and spying but has never spent a night in jail. He has been fined for dropping a match in China, mugged in Moscow, conned in Casablanca and kidnapped in Outer Mongolia, but hasn't tired of travelling yet.

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