Author: Christopher BealePublisher:
ISBN: 9781905517145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
This and Last Season's Excursions
Author: Christopher BealePublisher:
ISBN: 9781905517145
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Hunting Tours
Author: Cornelius TonguePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fox hunting
Languages : en
Pages : 470
Book Description
Excursions in Geometry
Author: Charles Stanley OgilvyPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486265307
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
A straightedge, compass, and a little thought are all that's needed to discover the intellectual excitement of geometry. Harmonic division and Apollonian circles, inversive geometry, hexlet, Golden Section, more. 132 illustrations.
Director of the Tours
Author: Fred ColvinPublisher: Publication Consultants
ISBN: 159433207X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
The State of Alaska is endlessly in the national news--whether the news be political, adventurous, or simply a report on odd occurrences (of which our state seems to have an abundance). Director of the Tours is an attempt by the author to report on both humorous and touching stories relating to the more than one million visitors whom choose to visit Alaska aboard cruise ships each summer. Thirty-five stories concern the author’s interactions in unique situations during his ten years of leading guests on mostly five and six day land tours. These tours stretch from Seward, in South Central Alaska to the Alaska interior city of Fairbanks. Another 11 stories relate to events occurring in winter, when we tour directors are encouraged to jump on board any cruise ship (space available), anywhere in the world—and get a feel for what our guests get to experience on these luxury liners. The author hopes you will enjoy these stories.
Nimrod's Hunting Tours,
Author: NimrodRoutes and Rates for Summer Tours ...
Author: Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railroad CompanyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
Skiing
Author: The Sphere
Author: Bi-monthly Bulletin
Author: Tropical Whites
Author: Catherine CocksPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812207955
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort—white sand, blue waters, and towering palms—become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores the dramatic shift in attitudes toward and popularization of the tropical tourist "Southland" in the Americas: Florida, Southern California, Mexico, and the Caribbean. Drawing on a wide range of sources, Catherine Cocks examines the history and development of tropical tourism from the late nineteenth century through the early 1940s, when the tropics constituted ideal winter resorts for vacationers from the temperate zones. Combining history, geography, and anthropology, this provocative book explains not only the transformation of widely held ideas about the relationship between the environment and human bodies but also how this shift in thinking underscored emerging concepts of modern identity and popular attitudes toward race, sexuality, nature, and their interconnections. Cocks argues that tourism, far from simply perverting pristine local cultures and selling superficial misunderstandings of them, served as one of the central means of popularizing the anthropological understanding of culture, new at the time. Together with the rise of germ theory, the emergence of the tropical horticulture industry, changes in passport laws, travel writing, and the circulation of promotional materials, national governments and the tourist industry changed public perception of the tropics from a region of decay and degradation, filled with dangerous health risks, to one where the modern traveler could encounter exotic cultures and a rejuvenating environment.