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  • Zamboni

    The Coolest Machines on Ice

    de Eric Dregni ...
    Enjoy a (slow) spin around the old rink in the only history of the world-famous Zamboni ice resurfacer…now available in an updated edition to celebrate the 70th birthday of these iconic machines!Until 1949, resurfacing an ice rink required an ungainly tractor-pulled shaver followed by three or four workers scooping away the shavings and then spraying and squeegeeing water. The process—including ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • You're Sending Me Where?

    Dispatches from Summer Camp

    de Eric Dregni ...
    Welcome! Benvenuti! It’s summertime in northern Minnesota and a bus full of kids is about to arrive at the Italian Concordia Language Village, better known as camp. Inexplicably the chief lifeguard has chosen this moment to conduct a “missing villager drill,” prompting staff to strip to their underwear in a simulated rush to search the lake. It’s an inopportune time for a surprise visit from the ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • For the Love of Cod

    A Father and Son's Search for Norwegian Happiness

    de Eric Dregni ...
    A journey to find Norway’s supposed bliss makes for a comic travelogue that asks, seriously, what makes Norwegians so damn happy—and does it translate?Norway is usually near or at the top of the World Happiness Report. But is it really one of the happiest countries on Earth? Eric Dregni had his doubts. Years ago he and his wife had lived in this country his great-great-grandfather once fled. When ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Vikings in the Attic

    In Search of Nordic America

    de Eric Dregni ...
    Growing up with Swedish and Norwegian grandparents with a dash of Danish thrown in for balance, Eric Dregni thought Scandinavians were perfectly normal. Who doesn’t enjoy a good, healthy salad (Jell-O packed with canned fruit, colored marshmallows, and pretzels) or perhaps some cod soaked in drain cleaner as the highlights of Christmas? Only later did it dawn on him that perhaps this was just a ... Leer más

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  • The Scooter Bible

    The Ultimate History and Encyclopedia

    de Eric Dregni ...
    **The Scooter Bible is an entertaining, colorful, and authoritative history of the little motorbikes that could.Beginning with the first motor scooter in 1902**, Eric Dregni is your guide to everything from the postwar American scooter boom to the golden age of Italian and European scooters, the rise of Mod scooter culture in England . . . right up to modern electric scooters.Today, nostalgia for ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • Never Trust a Thin Cook and Other Lessons from Italy’s Culinary Capital

    de Eric Dregni ...
    The food-obsessed chronicle of an American’s three years in Italy—now available in paperbackI simply want to live in the place with the best food in the world. This dream led Eric Dregni to Italy, first to Milan and eventually to a small, fog-covered town to the north: Modena, the birthplace of balsamic vinegar, Ferrari, and Luciano Pavarotti. Never Trust a Thin Cook is a classic American abroad ... Leer más

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  • By the Waters of Minnetonka

    de Eric Dregni ...
    Lake Minnetonka is renowned for its natural beauty as well as the prominent people it has attracted to its shores as a historic site of grand hotels, steamboats, and wealthy visitors from around the world, and as the home of the legendary Excelsior Amusement Park. But did you know that early European settlers to the region faced conditions so dire that they named an outlet of the lake “Purgatory ... Leer más

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  • In Cod We Trust

    Living the Norwegian Dream

    de Eric Dregni ...
    Eric Dregni’s great-grandfather Ellef fled Norway in 1893 when it was the poorest country in Europe. More than one hundred years later, his great-grandson traveled back to find that—mostly due to oil and natural gas discoveries—it is now the richest. The circumstances of his return were serendipitous, as the notice that Dregni won a Fulbright Fellowship to go there arrived the same week as the ... Leer más

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  • The Life Vespa

    de Eric Dregni ...
    Series series The Life
    Since hitting the road in 1946, eighteen million Vespa motor scooters have buzzed the Earth.Vespa's success lies in the uniqueness of its design -- in the unmistakable sheet metal skin that, over the span of decades, has defined the concept of "motor scooter."The Life Vespa celebrates all aspects of the scooters and the thriving culture that surrounds them. Since Vespa is affordable and in high ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

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  • The Flamethrowers

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