Discovered Country
Tourism and Survival in the American West
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Word Count
64,500 words, Guess
Page Count
258 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL8524147M
- ISBN-139780963762306
- ISBN-100963762303
- OCLC Control Number31255555
- OCLC Control Numberdiscoveredcountr00sco_mp1
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number94066179
- Goodreads2778443
- LibraryThing2661988
Description
In this diverse collection, some of the West's best-known writers, journalists, and leading social scientists explore the impacts of tourism and development on western communities and cultures, wild lands and national parks, and on our society's changing relationship to the land. From New Mexico to Montana, many have embraced tourism as a sustainable economic alternative to the unpredictable cycles and heavy environmental costs of extractive industry. Others see a darker side to tourism: the selling of place, history, and cultural identity in exchange for low-wage employment in an increasingly urbanized, economically divided, and corporate-dominated social environment. Although tourism is the focus of discussion, the wider issue is survival . . . of towns and peoples, of ways of life, of "the West."
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