The Tourism Imaginary and Pilgrimages to the Edges of the World / / ed. by Nieves Herrero, Sharon R. Roseman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Fife, Wayne,; Herrero, Nieves,; Hickey, Maeve,; Horlent, Laura M.,; Ireland, Michael,; Jacobsen, Jens Kr. Steen,; Menzies, Charles R.,; Roseman, Sharon R.,; Salemme, Mónica C.,; Taylor, Lawrence J.,
• HerausgeberIn: Herrero, Nieves,; Roseman, Sharon R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 44
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgements --; Contributors --; 1. Introduction --; 2. Galicia's Finisterre and Coast of Death --; 3. At the End of the Road: Refl ections on Finistère, Land's End, France --; 4. Land's End, Cornwall, England --; 5. Pilgrimage to the Edge: Lough Derg and the Moral Geography of Europe and Ireland --; 6. North Cape: In the Land of the Midnight Sun --; 7. Where North America Ends --; 8. Finis Terrae: The End-of-the- World Imaginary in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845415242; 9783110754377
• DOI: 10.21832/9781845415242
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Nieves Herrero, Sharon R. Roseman.

This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about 'the edges of the world'. The contributors examine the attraction of the sublime, remoteness, continental border-points, and the dangers of the sea in Finisterre (or Fisterra) in Galicia (Spain); Finistère in Brittany (France); Land's End, Cornwall (England); Lough Derg (Ireland); Nordkapp or North Cape (Norway); Cape Spear, Newfoundland (Canada); and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). While those travelling to these locations can be seen to be conducting some form of religious or secular pilgrimage, those who live in them have long contended with the implications of economic and political marginalization within global political economies.