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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780556303321

Autore

Jasen Patricia

Titolo

Wild things : nature, culture, and tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914 / / Patricia Jasen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1995

©1995

ISBN

0-8020-7638-6

1-282-00315-1

9786612003158

1-4426-8349-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

338.4/791713

Soggetti

Tourism - Ontario - History

Ecotourism - Ontario - History

Livres numeriques.

History

e-books.

Electronic books.

Ontario

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""CONTENTS""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""1. Introduction: Nature, Culture, and Tourism""; ""Tourists, Travellers, and the Semiotics of Tourism""; ""Tourism and Romanticism""; ""Tourism and Colonialism""; ""Who's Speaking? Class, Gender, and the Nature of Travel Narrative""; ""2. Taming Niagara""; ""Terror and Transcendence""; ""The Romantic Itinerary""; ""Doing Niagara, or Niagara Undone""; ""3. Wilderness Panorama""; ""Fairy Isles and Voyageurs""; ""The St Lawrence River Excursion""; ""An Image Transferred""; ""From Nature to Culture""; ""4. Native Lands""; ""The Iconography of the Upper Lakes""

""Victorian Excursionists""""Colonizing Eyes""; ""The Romance Fades""; ""5. A Rest Cure in a Canoe""; ""Rest Cures and Racial Health""; ""Class, Gender, and the Wilderness Holiday""; ""My Heart Is in Muskoka""; ""Day



Trippers""; ""6. Close Encounters""; ""White Tourists and Native Guides""; ""Up the Nipigon""; ""Temagami and Beyond""; ""The Politics of Race""; ""Conclusion""; ""NOTES""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""; ""PICTURE CREDITS""

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