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The Delicious History of the Holiday (Paperback)
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The Delicious History of the Holiday (Paperback)
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Our holidays lie near the heart of our emotional life, enjoyed for
a fortnight, fed on imagination for eleven months of the year. What
we want from our holidays tells a lot about who we are and what we
wish we were.
In this charming account, Fred Inglis traces the rise of the
holiday from its early roots in the Grand Tour, through the coming
of Thomas Cook and his Blackpool packages, to sex tourism and the
hippie trail to Kathmandu. He celebrates the bodily pleasures of
generations of tourists - from Edwardian banquets in Paris to fish
and chips on the beach, from the Bright Young Things on the Riviera
to the chosen hardships of the sea, the desert wastes and the
mountain tops. He considers the ideals and the spiritual
aspirations which are part of what we look for in a holiday, but he
also warns of a darker current - how we have increasingly destroyed
what we take most pleasure in and how the dealings between those
who have much and those who have little, can seldom, however good
our intentions, avoid the taint of exploitation.
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