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The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
Jonathan R. Wynn
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Description for The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
Paperback. Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. This title provides long history of tour-giving across the globe as well as the ups and downs of New York's tour guide industry in the wake of 9/11. Series: Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries. Num Pages: 232 pages, 5 halftones, 8 line drawings. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 3JMC; KNSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 153 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.
Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start - and that's where the city's tour guides come in. These guides are a vital part of New York's raucous sidewalk culture, and, as "The Tour Guide" reveals, the tours they offer are as fascinatingly diverse - and eccentric - as the city itself. Visitors can take tours that cover Manhattan before the arrival of European settlers, the nineteenth-century Irish gangs of Five Points, ... Read more
Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start - and that's where the city's tour guides come in. These guides are a vital part of New York's raucous sidewalk culture, and, as "The Tour Guide" reveals, the tours they offer are as fascinatingly diverse - and eccentric - as the city itself. Visitors can take tours that cover Manhattan before the arrival of European settlers, the nineteenth-century Irish gangs of Five Points, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Condition
New
Series
Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226919065
SKU
V9780226919065
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About Jonathan R. Wynn
Jonathan R. Wynn teaches in the Department of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Reviews for The Tour Guide: Walking and Talking New York (Fieldwork Encounters and Discoveries)
"The Tour Guide is an enormously interesting book. Wynn's extensive interviews and observations show us a variety of people giving tours of New York in a variety of ways, and by the time you finish the book you've learned a great deal about them, how they work, and why they do it. While The Tour Guide intersects with other classic ... Read more