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1 online resource |
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"Our modern day, multimedia, information-obsessed culture has fundamentally altered much of what we do day-to-day. The way we shop and pay bills. The way we communicate. The way we research, study, and learn. In the realm of travel we have more tools than ever telling us where to go, how to get there, what it will look like, what to do, and why we should go in the first place. This proliferation of constantly updated data has changed the way we go about our journeys. But how? By tracing the evolution of the guidebook from pilgrim manuals and Baedeker's books to Yelp reviews and Google Maps, David Bockino explores the effects this information growth has had on the state of travel and adventure. Inspired by some of the world's greatest explorers, he sets out guidebook-less to a destination he knows little about, launching an experiment to determine just how the guidebook and its digital descendants have transformed the nature of travel. The Guidebook Experiment is a call-to-action to conduct our own guidebook experiments, to disconnect from the ceaseless barrage of information in modern life and explore an unknown neighborhood or unfamiliar country and discover the joy of travel on our own"-- Provided by publisher. |
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"The Guidebook Experiment shows readers how to mitigate the effects of an information-saturated world and discover the wonders associated with true exploration"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Machine generated contents note: PART 1: THE GUIDEBOOK EVOLUTION -- CHAPTER 1: THE GUIDEBOOK EVOLUTION -- CHAPTER 2: EXPLORING NEW YORK CITY -- CHAPTER 3: THE HISTORY OF THE PROFESSIONAL GUIDEBOOK -- CHAPTER 4: THE HISTORY OF THE AMATEUR GUIDEBOOK -- CHAPTER 5: GUIDEBOOK BACKLASH -- PART 2: THE GUIDEBOOK EXPERIMENT -- CHAPTER 6: WHAT WE DON'T KNOW -- CHAPTER 7: MOVING ON -- CHAPTER 8: THE ART OF NEGOTIATION -- CHAPTER 9: HOSTILITY AND HOSPITALITY -- CHAPTER 10: TETHERED INDEPENDENCE -- CHAPTER 11: DESCRIBING THE INDESCRIBABLE -- PART 3: THE GUIDEBOOK EFFECT -- CHAPTER 12: THE RESULTS -- NOTES AND SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Voyages and travels.
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Voyages and travels. |
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Explorers.
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Explorers. |
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Discoveries in geography.
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Discoveries in geography. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Bockino, David. Guidebook experiment Palo Alto, California : Travelers' Tales, 2015 9781609520922 (DLC) 2015021632 |
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9781609520939 (electronic book) |
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1609520939 (electronic book) |
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9781609520922 (paperback) |
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1609520920 |
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