Englishman's England: Taste, Travel, and the Rise of Tourism - Ian Ousby - Hardcover

This fascinating and original study shows that the English tourist industry is not a peculiarly modern creation. Concentrating on four types of perennial tourist attraction - literary shrines, country houses, picturesque ruins, and the natural landscape - Ian Ousby identifies the canons of taste which first made them objects of fashionable attention in the eighteenth century, and records how they acquired the trappings of the full-blown tourist attraction. He traces the development not just of an industry but of a state of mind - marked from its earliest days by the haunting fear that tourism spoils and maybe even destroys the very things it most admires. The Englishman's England is highly illustrated throughout.Ousby, Ian is the author of 'Englishman's England: Taste, Travel, and the Rise of Tourism - Ian Ousby - Hardcover' with ISBN 9780521373746 and ISBN 0521373743.