Oral Roberts

IOWAcombined to destroy the historical ambience of George Washington's home.Charleston and New Orleans, for years bypassed by prosperity, presented the most genuine historical face, while Santa Fe in its nearly unanimous adoption of adobe, became by the mid-1920s "what it should have been: a place that would be what it never was" (299).Jakle writes that North Americans, for the most part uneducated in geography, were ripe for the contrivances of packaged tourism and content with the stereotypes propagated in the popular culture.In the early part of the century the responsible and diligent tourist mixed pleasure and learning to grow and mature."The irresponsible tourist did not grow, but only pleasured, often learning little and keeping prejudices firmly intact. . . .[T]he coming of the automobile, with mass tourism following in its wake, obscured the values of responsible travel" (306).This book is rich in detail, and in that richness, even more than in its theme, lies its value.Jakle has an eye for the apt quotation.His mastery of the literature of travel is awesome, as the 23-page bibliography attests.The Tourist is a pleasure to read.It tells us what we have lost as well as what we have gained in our quest for speed and autonomy in the automobile age

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