Being a Tourist: Finding Meaning in Pleasure Travel

What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons? What makes travel meaningful? In Being a Tourist, Julia Harrison explores the motivations of a large group of middle-class travelers to find out why people invest their financial, emotional, psychological, and physical resources in this activity. She suggests that they are fueled by several desires: to find intimacy and connection, to express a personal aesthetic, to explore the idea of "home," and to make sense of a globalized world. Engagingly and thoughtfully written for readers of travel writing, tourism studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and sociology, Being a Tourist goes beyond current debates about authenticity and consumption to analyze the nuanced moral and political complexity of privileged travel.

Harrison, Julia

Travel

UBC Press

What feeds the impulse to explore new horizons? What makes travel meaningful? In Being a Tourist, Julia Harrison explores the motivations of a large group of middle-class travelers to find out why people invest their financial, emotional, psychological, and physical resources in this activity. She suggests that they are fueled by several desires: to find intimacy and connection, to express a personal aesthetic, to explore the idea of "home," and to make sense of a globalized world. Engagingly and thoughtfully written for readers of travel writing, tourism studies, anthropology, cultural studies, and sociology, Being a Tourist goes beyond current debates about authenticity and consumption to analyze the nuanced moral and political complexity of privileged travel.

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

A Timeless Place: The Ontario Cottage

As Julia Harrison's first summer of living in Ontario approached, she became aware of the culture of the cottage. Friends talked of nothing but languid afternoons on the dock, but Harrison marveled at the investment of money and labor that the idyllic escapes demanded. Curious about the rich and passionate meaning these places seemed to hold, she studied cottagers in the Haliburton region over the course of seven years. Thoughtfully and engagingly written, A Timeless Place considers the family cottage as a place where memories are treasured, national identity is celebrated, spiritual balance is restored, and a few dark secrets are kept.

History

Americas

As Julia Harrison's first summer of living in Ontario approached, she became aware of the culture of the cottage. Friends talked of nothing but languid afternoons on the dock, but Harrison marveled at the investment of money and labor that the idyllic escapes demanded. Curious about the rich and passionate meaning these places seemed to hold, she studied cottagers in the Haliburton region over the course of seven years. Thoughtfully and engagingly written, A Timeless Place considers the family cottage as a place where memories are treasured, national identity is celebrated, spiritual balance is restored, and a few dark secrets are kept.

Comanche Moon

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Independently published

Practicing professional sculpting techniques, kids will create amazing clay animals with this guided activity kit. A pre-formed, movable "skeleton" provides the foundational shape; kids layer high-grade clay over it to create an animal as crazy or true to form as they desire.

Lizard Clay Kit (Art Lab)

Children's Books

Arts, Music & Photography

Smart Lab

Jeremiah 17:7 says, "Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is." 
Trusting in the Lord has proven to be a true blessing. In this story, you will see many different reasons for placing faith in, Standing in, and trusting the Lord. You will read important scriptures and understand how and why I choose to follow the Word of God. Also, what He has brought me through and the advantages I have been given, some to be expected, and some came as a complete surprise. But all of that has worked out for His glory, honor, and praise. In return for being faithful to His Word and grace, He gave me mercy, and He showed me all of my faults, sins, and indiscretions. Being grated into His family has been the greatest gift we could ever imagine or receive.

Stand and Trust

Trilogy Christian Publishing

Aiden and Aaliyah: Sharing Is Caring is an African American children's book that narrates a brother and sister's journey to understanding the purpose of sharing with each other. They encounter different problems that result in each of them becoming sad while the other discovers an idea on how to solve the issue. In the end, Aiden and Aaliyah's mother has to intervene to help them realize that they can share with each other even when they are both upset.

Aiden and Aaliyah Sharing is Caring

Literature & Fiction

United States

Page Publishing

Hydroponics for Beginners

Sannainvest Ltd

GREENHOUSE GARDEN FOR BEGINNERS & HYDROPONICS 2 books in 1

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