Off the Tourist Trail: 1,000 Unexpected Travel Alternatives (Hardcover)
February 22, 2010 by
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Off the Tourist Trail is a guide to the world’s unspoiled sights and experiences. It takes a hundred clichéd tourist destinations – everything from over-visited national parks to overrated museums – and reveal 1,000 fresh and fascinating alternative options. Written by a team of travel experts, and with a foreword by Bill Bryson, [...]
The Tourist: A New Theory of the Leisure Class (Paperback)
February 22, 2010 by
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From The Washington Post
“MacCannell attempts to create something Levi-Strauss said is impossible: an ethnography of modernity, a detailed anthropological analysis of modern culture. . . . By following the tourist, he believes, we may arrive at a better understanding of ourselves.”
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The Tourist [Bargain Price] (Hardcover)
February 22, 2010 by
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From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. Edgar-finalist Steinhauer takes a break from his crime series set in an unnamed Eastern European country under Communist rule (Liberation Movements, etc.) to deliver an outstanding stand-alone, a contemporary spy thriller. Milo Weaver used to be a tourist, one of the CIA’s special [...]
