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By Nieves Herrero,Sharon R. Roseman
This booklet examines how the expansion of tourism in destinations that experience traditionally been thought of geographically distant performs an immense position within the consolidation and transformation of usually longstanding and robust cultural imaginaries approximately ‘the edges of the world’. The participants research the charm of the chic, remoteness, continental border-points, and the hazards of the ocean in Finisterre (or Fisterra) in Galicia (Spain); Finistère in Brittany (France); Land’s finish, Cornwall (England); Lough Derg (Ireland); Nordkapp or North Cape (Norway); Cape Spear, Newfoundland (Canada); and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). While these vacationing to those destinations will be noticeable to be accomplishing a few type of non secular or secular pilgrimage, those that stay in them have lengthy contended with the results of financial and political marginalization inside international political economies.
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