{"product_id":"wisconsin-death-trip","title":"Wisconsin Death Trip","description":"\u003cp\u003eFirst UK edition of Wisconsin Death Trip by Michael Lesy. (1973)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLarge format hardcover in very good condition\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGeneral wear and tear to dust jacket (in good condition), now in a removable protective sleeve\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome slight toning to end papers and extremities to some of the interior pages\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOtherwise, majority of pages clean, binding firm\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePrevious owner's name inside (this copy was owned by photographer Nick Hedges)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eSome very minor wear to extremities of boards\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComes with a newspaper clipping loosely laid in\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAbout\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is about life in a small turn-of-the-century Wisconsin town. Lesy has collected and arranged photographs taken between 1890 and 1910. Against these are juxtaposed excerpts from the Badger State Banner, from the Mendota State (asylum) Record Book, and occasionally quotations from the writings of Hamlin Garland and Glenway Wescott.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProtestants behaving strangely in the 1890s. . . . an outbreak of craziness, multiple murders, suicides, ghost sightings, epidemics, gun-toting teenagers, schoolmarms hooked on cocaine and general mental illness (well, an insane asylum was nearby)all in a little town called Black River Falls, populated mostly by German and Scandinavian immigrants.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Michael Lesy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57540278124926,"sku":null,"price":117.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0592\/2593\/1985\/files\/Wisconsin-Death-Trip-by-Michael-Lesy4.heic?v=1781269595","url":"https:\/\/www.setantabooks.com\/en-us\/products\/wisconsin-death-trip","provider":"Setanta Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}