TY  - BOOK
AU  - Jasen,Patricia
TI  - Wild Things: Nature, Culture, and Tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914
T2  - Heritage Series
SN  - 9781442683495
AV  - G155.C3 J37 1995 
PY  - 1995///
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Tourism-Ontario-History
KW  - Ecotourism-Ontario-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - COVER -- 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 -- Illustrations
N2  - The first book to explore the cultural foundations of tourism in Ontario, Wild Thingsalso makes a major contribution to the literature on the wilderness ideal in North America
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