Secret Seattle (Seattle Walk Report): An Illustrated Guide to the City's Offbeat and Overlooked History

Secret Seattle (Seattle Walk Report): An Illustrated Guide to the City's Offbeat and Overlooked History
ISBN-10
1632173743
ISBN-13
9781632173744
Category
Travel
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2021
Publisher
Sasquatch Books
Author
Susanna Ryan

Description

"Cartoonist and creator of "Seattle Walk Report" Susanna Ryan strolls on with a quirky new illustrated guide celebrating Seattle's everyday outdoor wonders. In Secret Seattle, Ryan explores the weird and wonderful hidden history behind some of the city's most overlooked places, architecture, and infrastructure, from coal chutes in Capitol Hill, to the last remainder of Seattle's original Chinatown in Pioneer Square, to where you can find century-old sidewalks. Discover pocket parks, beautiful boulevards, and great public gardens while learning offbeat facts that will make you see the Emerald City in a whole new way"--

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