Author: Alexis Gregory
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780304351534
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Looks back on the golden age of the ocean liner, luxury train, private yacht, and zeppelin, and describes the experiences of travelers of that period
The Golden Age of Travel 1880-1939
Author: Alexis Gregory
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780304351534
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Looks back on the golden age of the ocean liner, luxury train, private yacht, and zeppelin, and describes the experiences of travelers of that period
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN: 9780304351534
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Looks back on the golden age of the ocean liner, luxury train, private yacht, and zeppelin, and describes the experiences of travelers of that period
The Golden Age of Travel 1889-1939
Journey
Author: DK
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744065445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1525
Book Description
Follow the voyages of the Vikings, pursue plundering pirates, trace the Hippie Trail, or set off on a flight to the Moon. A thrilling expedition awaits you on every page. Journeys have arisen from all manner of impulse, from migration and the search for food to pilgrimages, trade, scientific curiosity, or simply the quest for adventure. Packed with stories of human movement and endeavor, Journey lets you experience the excitement and romance of travel, covering everything from quests across the Silk Road and the adventures of Marco Polo to explorations in space and underwater. Discover ancient maps, biographies of conquerors, explorers and travelers, stories of scientific discovery and technological innovation, stunning works of art, and catalogs of travel-related memorabilia. This truly worldwide account is a glorious celebration of human journeys and will make an impressive gift for any lover of travel and history.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0744065445
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1525
Book Description
Follow the voyages of the Vikings, pursue plundering pirates, trace the Hippie Trail, or set off on a flight to the Moon. A thrilling expedition awaits you on every page. Journeys have arisen from all manner of impulse, from migration and the search for food to pilgrimages, trade, scientific curiosity, or simply the quest for adventure. Packed with stories of human movement and endeavor, Journey lets you experience the excitement and romance of travel, covering everything from quests across the Silk Road and the adventures of Marco Polo to explorations in space and underwater. Discover ancient maps, biographies of conquerors, explorers and travelers, stories of scientific discovery and technological innovation, stunning works of art, and catalogs of travel-related memorabilia. This truly worldwide account is a glorious celebration of human journeys and will make an impressive gift for any lover of travel and history.
The Golden Age of Travel
Author: Helen (Barber) Morrison
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758130327
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780758130327
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
A History of Modern Tourism
Author: Eric Zuelow
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350307092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important. It plays a vital role in defining who we are by helping to place us in space and time. In so doing, it has aesthetic, medical, political, cultural, and social implications. However, it hasn't always been so. Tourism as we know it is a surprisingly modern thing, both a product of modernity and a force helping to shape it. A History of Modern Tourism is the first book to track the origins and evolution of this pursuit from earliest times to the present. From a new understanding of aesthetics to scientific change, from the invention of steam power to the creation of aircraft, from an elite form of education to family car trips to see national 'shrines,' this book offers a sweeping and engaging overview of a fascinating story not yet widely known.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350307092
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, yet leisure travel is more than just economically important. It plays a vital role in defining who we are by helping to place us in space and time. In so doing, it has aesthetic, medical, political, cultural, and social implications. However, it hasn't always been so. Tourism as we know it is a surprisingly modern thing, both a product of modernity and a force helping to shape it. A History of Modern Tourism is the first book to track the origins and evolution of this pursuit from earliest times to the present. From a new understanding of aesthetics to scientific change, from the invention of steam power to the creation of aircraft, from an elite form of education to family car trips to see national 'shrines,' this book offers a sweeping and engaging overview of a fascinating story not yet widely known.
Spiritual Tourism
Author: Alex Norman
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441165193
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studies perspective. Using field research gathered from spiritual tourism locations in Asia and Europe, and utilizing contemporary scholarship on practices concerned with meaning and identity, it explores the phenomena of journeys that are taken for self transformation, tracing the history of transformative ideas in Western cultures of travel, and including the modes in which the travel experience has been communicated. Spiritual Tourism provides an important opportunity to comment on the role of tourism in contemporary conceptions of spirituality and spiritual practice in Western society.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1441165193
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This book investigates spiritual tourism - tourism characterised by an intentional search for spiritual benefit - from a contemporary religious studies perspective. Using field research gathered from spiritual tourism locations in Asia and Europe, and utilizing contemporary scholarship on practices concerned with meaning and identity, it explores the phenomena of journeys that are taken for self transformation, tracing the history of transformative ideas in Western cultures of travel, and including the modes in which the travel experience has been communicated. Spiritual Tourism provides an important opportunity to comment on the role of tourism in contemporary conceptions of spirituality and spiritual practice in Western society.
Principles of Tourism Part I' 2006 Ed.
Author: Z. Cruz
Publisher: Rex Bookstore, Inc.
ISBN: 9789712346187
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Publisher: Rex Bookstore, Inc.
ISBN: 9789712346187
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
We'll Always Have Paris
Author: Harvey Levenstein
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226473805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part tourists from their money. We'll Always Have Paris explores how both images came to flourish in the United States, often in the minds of the same people. Harvey Levenstein takes us back to the 1930s, when, despite the Great Depression, France continued to be the stomping ground of the social elite of the eastern seaboard. After World War II, wealthy and famous Americans returned to the country in droves, helping to revive its old image as a wellspring of sophisticated and sybaritic pleasures. At the same time, though, thanks in large part to Communist and Gaullist campaigns against U.S. power, a growing sensitivity to French anti-Americanism began to color tourists' experiences there, strengthening the negative images of the French that were already embedded in American culture. But as the century drew on, the traditional positive images were revived, as many Americans again developed an appreciation for France's cuisine, art, and urban and rustic charms. Levenstein, in his colorful, anecdotal style, digs into personal correspondence, journalism, and popular culture to shape a story of one nation's relationship to another, giving vivid play to Americans' changing response to such things as France's reputation for sexual freedom, haute cuisine, high fashion, and racial tolerance. He puts this tumultuous coupling of France and the United States in historical perspective, arguing that while some in Congress say we may no longer have french fries, others, like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, know they will always have Paris, and France, to enjoy and remember.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226473805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397
Book Description
For much of the twentieth century, Americans had a love/hate relationship with France. While many admired its beauty, culture, refinement, and famed joie de vivre, others thought of it as a dilapidated country populated by foul-smelling, mean-spirited anti-Americans driven by a keen desire to part tourists from their money. We'll Always Have Paris explores how both images came to flourish in the United States, often in the minds of the same people. Harvey Levenstein takes us back to the 1930s, when, despite the Great Depression, France continued to be the stomping ground of the social elite of the eastern seaboard. After World War II, wealthy and famous Americans returned to the country in droves, helping to revive its old image as a wellspring of sophisticated and sybaritic pleasures. At the same time, though, thanks in large part to Communist and Gaullist campaigns against U.S. power, a growing sensitivity to French anti-Americanism began to color tourists' experiences there, strengthening the negative images of the French that were already embedded in American culture. But as the century drew on, the traditional positive images were revived, as many Americans again developed an appreciation for France's cuisine, art, and urban and rustic charms. Levenstein, in his colorful, anecdotal style, digs into personal correspondence, journalism, and popular culture to shape a story of one nation's relationship to another, giving vivid play to Americans' changing response to such things as France's reputation for sexual freedom, haute cuisine, high fashion, and racial tolerance. He puts this tumultuous coupling of France and the United States in historical perspective, arguing that while some in Congress say we may no longer have french fries, others, like Humphrey Bogart in Casablanca, know they will always have Paris, and France, to enjoy and remember.
Steamship Travel in the Interwar Years
Author: Lorraine Coons
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144564987X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Lorraine Coons and Alexander Varias explore the world of interwar steamship travel.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144564987X
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Lorraine Coons and Alexander Varias explore the world of interwar steamship travel.
Holidays and High Society
Author: Lucinda Gosling in association with Mary Evans Picture Library
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750990080
Category : Seaside resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A sumptuous visual feast of society holidaying when foreign travel was the preserve of only the elite
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780750990080
Category : Seaside resorts
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A sumptuous visual feast of society holidaying when foreign travel was the preserve of only the elite