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Title: Global Journeys in Metro Detroit: A Multicultural Guide to the Motor City by Helen Love, Marica Danner, Helen B. Love, Patricia Banker Peart ISBN: 0-9673379-0-9 Publisher: New Detroit, Inc. Pub. Date: 16 September, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (3 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Great Information! How do I get to it?
Comment: I think this is the only travel guide that covers Detroit, that's actually got any real bulk to it. Pretty much everything else deals with all of Michigan, and covers Detroit in ten or fifteen pages -- or less.

So I'm pretty pleased to have the volume of information that this guide provides. And I think, if I were planning my trips based on a particular ethnicity, I might find it organized well, also. But I'm not; I'm a pretty ordinary kind of guy.

I came to the guide intrigued, hoping to get a solid view of the various neighborhoods in Detroit, where people lived, etc. Instead the guide is organized around nations of the world (which is cool!) and places you can go in the Detroit metro area that exhibit that ethnicity. There's not much in the way of alternate points of entry -- no indexing, no overviews with pointers into deeper content, etc.

The information provided is valuable. I'm certainly not giving my copy away. But it doesn't stand alone very well. I'd recommend a good map and a Michigan travel guide to supplement.

Rating: 4
Summary: A good guide to any Detroit newcomer
Comment: Any newcomer to the Detroit area should pick up a copy of Global Journeys in Metro Detroit. I did so when I moved to the area almost a year ago and have used my copy almost weekly to find area shops, restaurants and cultural events. Fortunately, and not surprisingly, the book's title and contents cover more than just the bombed out, decrepit, crime ridden, over taxed, city proper. (Much of Detroit's ethnicity resides in the safer suburbs.) As a bonus, the book includes a good amount of information on Detroit's neighbor and occasional cultural superior, Windsor, Ontario, Canada. The lack of any index keeps this book from obtaining the highest rating.

Rating: 4
Summary: Finally...
Comment: A book that has been needed for years. Who knew all of that was in Detroit? I quibble with a few things, but overall, it was very educational.