| On Holiday: A History of Vacationing Volume 6 Contributor(s): Löfgren, Orvar (Author) |
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ISBN: 0520234642 ISBN-13: 9780520234642 Publisher: University of California Press OUR PRICE: $34.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2002 Annotation: "A fun book to read, witty and emotionally evocative without ever being sentimental or superficial. It focuses on the common experiences of tourism familiar to readers from any class or culture, and really enters the tourist imagination--in stark contrast to most other books I've read about tourism, which act like the tourists are some sort of exotic livestock."--Richard Wilk, author of "Economies and Cultures "A pleasure to read. The author has accomplished the very difficult task of moving almost seamlessly from general observations to the specific, and from the observations of others through time to his personal experience."--Erve Chambers, editor of "Tourism and Culture "Lofgren takes us down countless paths that we didn't know were there. . . . His interests seem wonderfully idiosyncratic. The issues that he deals with are thoroughly familiar, but the angle of his light is very new."--Stephen M. Fjellman, author of "Vinyl Leaves
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| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 910.4 |
| LCCN: 99-31304 |
| Series: California Studies in Critical Human Geography |
| Physical Information: 0.89" H x 6.02" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 334 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Löfgren takes us on a tour of the Western holiday world and shows how two centuries of "learning to be a tourist" have shaped our own ways of vacationing. We see how fashions in destinations have changed through the years, with popular images (written, drawn, painted, and later photographed) teaching the tourist what to look for and how to experience it. Travelers present and future will never see their cruises, treks, ecotours, round-the-world journeys, or trips to the vacation cottage or condo in quite the same way again. All our land-, sea-, and mindscapes will be the richer for Löfgren's insights. |
