Wild Things : : Nature, Culture, and Tourism in Ontario, 1790-1914 / / Patricia Jasen.
Europeans in the nineteenth century were fascinated with the wild and the primitive. So compelling was the craving for a first-hand experience of wilderness that it provided a lasting foundation for tourism as a consumer industry. In this book, Patricia Jasen shows how the region now known as Ontari...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Heritage
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (194 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- 1. Introduction: Nature, Culture, and Tourism
- 2. Taming Niagara
- 3. Wilderness Panorama
- 4. Native Lands
- 5. A Rest Cure in a Canoe
- 6. Close Encounters
- Conclusion
- NOTES
- INDEX