Secret Austin: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure

Secret Austin: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure
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Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 9781681062815
ISBN-13 : 168106281X
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Book Synopsis Secret Austin: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure by : Cheryl Thomas

Download or read book Secret Austin: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure written by Cheryl Thomas and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where can you see a spider as big as a school bus? How did the world’s largest flying dinosaur land in Austin? Where is the college dorm room where a struggling student started Dell computers? And why are there thousands and thousands of bats in Austin? Find the answers to these questions and many more in Secret Austin: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure. Learn about the lost-cause oil rig that became a gusher and funded higher education for generations. Follow in the footsteps of famous Austinites like Janis Joplin, Farrah Fawcett, and Matthew McConaughey. With life long journalists and Austin fans Cheryl and Les Thomas as your guides, you’re bound to find more than a few surprises about Austin—even if you’ve lived there forever. Whether you’re a slacker, an entrepreneur, a poet, or just a bluebonnet admirer, you’ll find Austin’s most fascinating hidden gems, strange history, and obscure trivia in this guide to the “City of the Violet Crown.”


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