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On Holiday: A History of Vacationing

By Orvar Löfgren

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
1999
ISBN
9780520928992
DOI
10.1525/9780520928992
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
21 MB (21540308 bytes)
Series
California Studies in Critical Human Geography; 6
Pages
334\334
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-21 17:52:35

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.

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