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Tasting Tourism: Travelling for Food and Drink
Along with basic practical reasons, our practices concerning food and drink are driven by context and environment, belief and convention, aspiration and desire to display - in short, by culture. Similarly, culture guides how tourism is used and operates. This book examines food and drink tourism, as it is now and is likely to develop, through a cultural 'lens'. It asks: what is food and drink tourism, and why have food and drink provisions and information points become tourist destinations in their own right, rather than remaining among a number of tourism features and components? While it offers a range of international examples, the main focus is on food and drink tourism in the UK. What with the current diversification of tourism in rural areas, the increased popularity of this type of tourism in the UK, the series of BSE, vCJD and foot and mouth crises in British food production, and the cultural and ethnic fusion in British towns and cities, it makes a particularly rich place in which to explore this subject. The author concludes that the future of food and drink tourism lies in diversity and distinctiveness. In an era of globalisation, there is a particular desire to enjoy varied, rather than mono-cultural ambiance and experience. She also notes that there is an immediacy of gratification in food and drink consumption which has become a general requirement of contemporary society.
Contents: Food and drink, from past to present; Food and drink become a leisure destination; Food for thought and visit; Ripe time for providers; Initiative and opinion; Production and display centres and venues; Outlets and markets; Accommodation; Feeding and drinking; Special events and devices, and resources for education; The wine dimension; From among the Cornucopia; The crop now, and for sowing in future; Bibliography; Index.
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A Canterbury Pilgrimage / an Italian Pilgrimage
A peasant in peaked hat and blue shirt, with trousers rolled up high above his bare knees, crossed the road and silently examined the tricycle. \"You have a good horse,\" he then said; \"it eats nothing.\" -from An Italian PilgrimageThe 1880s was an exhilarating time for cycling pioneers like Elizabeth and her husband Joseph. As boneshakers and high-wheelers evolved into tandem tricycles and the safety bike, cycling grew from child's play and extreme sport into a leisurely and, importantly, literary mode of transportation. The illustrated travel memoirs of \"those Pennells\" were-and still are-highly entertaining. They helped usher in the new age of leisure touring, while playfully hearkening back to famous literary journeys. In this new edition, Dave Buchanan provides rich cultural contexts surrounding the Pennells' first two adventures. These long out-of-print travel memoirs will delight avid cyclists as well as scholars of travel literature, cycling history, women's writing, Victorian literature, and illustration.
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Blues for Cannibals
Cultivated from the fierce ideas seeded in Blood Orchid, Blues for Cannibals is an elegiac reflection on death, pain, and a wavering confidence in humanity’s own abilities for self-preservation. After years of reporting on border violence, sex crimes, and the devastation of the land, Bowden struggles to make sense of the many ways in which we destroy ourselves and whether there is any way to survive. Here he confronts a murderer facing execution, sex offenders of the most heinous crimes, a suicidal artist, a prisoner obsessed with painting portraits of presidents, and other people and places that constitute our worst impulses and our worst truths. Painful, heartbreaking, and forewarning, Bowden at once tears us apart and yearns for us to find ourselves back together again.
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The Route of the Franks
The Route of the Franks presents a scientific study of the
journey that Archbishop Sigeric of Canterbury undertook at the end
of the first millennium from the British Isles to Rome, focussing
on the segment included in the territory of modern France. It not
only reconstructs the route that Sigeric followed here but also
takes an archaeological snapshot of the urban and architectural
developments in the centres crossed by this route at the twilight
of the first millennium AD. Sigeric's journey, undertaken for
reasons connected to his office, is framed within the historical
context of the contemporary Anglo-Saxon world. The special
relationship connecting Rome and Canterbury during the Early Middle
Ages is also analysed and an archaeological overview of the
archbishop's town is attempted. Sigeric's experience is framed in
the historical context of medieval journeys from England to Rome
and the Holy Land. Building upon the literature, culture and
narratives of travel, the modalities and practicalities of this
type of movement in the Middle Ages are reconstructed, reviewing
the many other possible routes across France and the reasons which
determined Sigeric's choice. This brings the author to a new
conceptualisation of travel in the past and to study how it
affected the identity of the traveller, how individuals and groups
interacted in the peculiar framework of displacement, introducing
sociological and anthropological perspectives. By applying
theoretical frameworks developed in the fields of geography, social
sciences, anthropology, environmental behavioural studies,
phenomenology, spatial analysis, ICTs and cognitive studies, the
book reveals how movement affects the perception of landscapes and
how mobility patterns socio-cultural phenomena.
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The Real Life of the Parthenon
Ownership battles over the marbles removed from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin have been rumbling into invective, pleading, and counterclaims for two centuries.The emotional temperature around them is high, and steering across the vast past to safe anchor in a brilliant heritage is tricky. The stories around antiquities become distorted by the pull.
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