Perhaps it just the essay form that doesn't appeal to me or maybe its the rather bland photography, but this book doesn't inspire me to leave my chair and head into the hinterlands.
I expected more of a tour guide, something that would lead me to nooks and crannies of the Midwest best known to locals or adventurous travellers. Nothing like that to be found here. This book covers the well-known and the already well-described.
Overall rhe book is disappointing. Frommer's or similar guides generally tell you much more about the areas. I admit, though, that I may not get the point of this book. It may be nothing more than a journal of a single traveller , not particularly intended to inform, but more to record the individual's experience. In that case, it is simply boring.
Jerry