High Season in Nice
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2003
Abacus (Verlag)
978-0-349-11347-0 (ISBN)
Abacus (Verlag)
978-0-349-11347-0 (ISBN)
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Founded by the Greeks some time after the 6th century BC, Nice has borne the tread of Roman legionnaires and Italy-bound Englishmen on the Grand Tour and now has tourism at its heart. This book explores how tourism evolved, how Nice and the Riviera became what they are, and the price they paid.
Nice is the queen of the Cote d'Azur. Founded by the Greeks some time after the 6th century BC, it has borne the tread of Roman legionnaires and Italy-bound Englishmen on the Grand Tour as well as Lost Generation literati from Hemingway to Fitzgerald. Since the late 19th century it has been known as a "pleasure capital", and now tourism is its beating heart. But how did this happen? What was it that changed not just Nice or the French Riviera, but our leisure habits as a whole? This is a book about pleasure and escape - about what five months or five days in a strikingly beautiful, foreign place, wrested from lives choked with stress and toil back home, meant to a few wealthy people 250 years ago, and mean to millions more of more modest means today. It is about how modern tourism got the way it did. It is about how Nice and the Riviera became what they are; and about the price they paid to do so.
Nice is the queen of the Cote d'Azur. Founded by the Greeks some time after the 6th century BC, it has borne the tread of Roman legionnaires and Italy-bound Englishmen on the Grand Tour as well as Lost Generation literati from Hemingway to Fitzgerald. Since the late 19th century it has been known as a "pleasure capital", and now tourism is its beating heart. But how did this happen? What was it that changed not just Nice or the French Riviera, but our leisure habits as a whole? This is a book about pleasure and escape - about what five months or five days in a strikingly beautiful, foreign place, wrested from lives choked with stress and toil back home, meant to a few wealthy people 250 years ago, and mean to millions more of more modest means today. It is about how modern tourism got the way it did. It is about how Nice and the Riviera became what they are; and about the price they paid to do so.
Robert Kanigel is the author of three previous books. He currently teaches writing in the University of Baltimore's publications design programme.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.7.2003 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 250 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Bildbände |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-349-11347-5 / 0349113475 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-349-11347-0 / 9780349113470 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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