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Contents: Foreword Preface Part I Lake District History and Identity: The Lake District landscape: cultural or natural?, Susan Denyer Setting the scene, John K. Walton The landscape encountered by the first tourists, Angus J.L. Winchester Landscape and society: the industrial revolution and beyond, John K. Walton American tourists in Wordsworthshire: from 'national property' to 'national park', Melanie Hall. Part II Lake District Tourism Themes: The imaginative visitor: Wordsworth and the Romantic construction of literary tourism in the Lake District, Keith Hanley 'Inhabited by strangers': tourism and the Lake District villa, Adam Menuge The origins and development of mountaineering and rock-climbing tourism in the Lake District, c. 1800-1914, Jonathan Westway Sport, tourism and place identity in the Lake District, 1800-1950, Mike Huggins and Keith Gregson. Part III Lake District Tourism Case Studies: Claife station and the picturesque in the Lakes, Sarah Rutherford Furness Abbey: a century and a half in the tourists' gaze, 1772-1923, Jason Wood The post-industrial picturesque? Placing and promoting marginalised Millom, David Cooper Select bibliography Index.
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