Gross America

Name: Gross America
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ISBN: 9781585429417

Your Coast-to-Coast Guide to All Things Gross

Richard Faulk

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English

Jeremy P Tarcher
11 October 2012

Trivia & quiz question books; Humour; Travel & holiday guides

Part ""Weird U.S."" and part ""Roadside America,"" GROSSAMERICAoffers families a road trip through the USA that would delight the King of Bad Taste John Waters and the unflappable guys on MTV's ""Jackass.""

Sure, you could use your vacation days to take the family to the beach again. Or, you could plan a trip to see brains in jars, frozen dead guys, and visit a factory that makes candy-coated insects. You can-

head down to Houston, Texas, and walk inside a 27-foot model of the human intestinal system

visit a Civil War battlefield embalming diorama

head over to explorers Lewis &Clark's latrines

look at the world's largest fungus

visit the Museum of Jurassic Technology in Culver City

touch the oldest human turd

recoil from a massive human hairball that grew for seven years before it was surgically removed from the stomach

of a 12-year-old girl who suffered from compulsive hair nibbling

see the corroded mandible of a Tyrannosaurus Rex at the nation's largest natural history museum in Chicago

visit the first funeral home to offer flameless cremation services

make a pilgrimage to Chicago to visit America's last remaining plastic vomit factory

journey to Cambridge, Massachusetts, to see a dog poop-fueled streetlamp

travel to Nederland, Colorado, for ""Frozen Dead Guy Days,"" an annual celebration of at-home cryogenics experiments

spend some time among the preserved human brains at Philadelphia's Mutter Museum

take in the acclaimed cockroach dioramas of Plano, Texas

Gross America is a coast-to-coast catalog of the most grandly gross science experiments, beautifully bizarre art, and delightfully disgusting historical sites that America has to offer. Part travel atlas, part trivia guide, Gross America presents these United States as you've never seen them before-weird, wonderful, strange, and totally, utterly gross.

By: Richard Faulk
Imprint: Jeremy P Tarcher
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 209mm, Width: 139mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 245g
ISBN: 9781585429417
ISBN 10: 1585429414
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 11 October 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

RICHARD FAULK is a freelance writer and editor. Formerly an associate editor at Scholastic, Inc., and onetime time-travel columnist, he has also written about Vikings for Australian tweens, reported on academic conferences for Columbia University, and celebrated the films of Pam Grier in Penthouse. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he thinks deeply about trivial matters.