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Hardcover The Englishman's England: Taste, Travel and the Rise of Tourism Book

ISBN: 0521373743

ISBN13: 9780521373746

The Englishman's England: Taste, Travel and the Rise of Tourism

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This fascinating and original study shows that the English tourist industry is not a peculiarly modern creation. Concentrating on four types of perennial tourist attraction - literary shrines, country houses, picturesque ruins, and the natural landscape - Ian Ousby identifies the canons of taste that made them objects of fashionable attention in the eighteenth-century, and records how they acquired the trappings of the full-blown tourist attraction...

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