| Recreation and the Sea Contributor(s): Fisher, Stephen (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0859895408 ISBN-13: 9780859895408 Publisher: Liverpool University Press OUR PRICE: $38.07 Product Type: Paperback Published: August 1997 Annotation: Recreation and the Sea focuses on the theme of the sea and leisure activities in England and Continental Europe. The book includes original essays on the rise of English yachting from 1640-1827; middle class yachting in Northwest England in the later nineteenth century; English attitudes to seabathing; the seaside resorts of Western Europe; tourism in Cornwall; and Torquay in the interwar years. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Western Europe - General |
| Dewey: 333.784 |
| Series: Maritime Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 5.73" W x 8.87" (0.68 lbs) 192 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Leisure studies have become an increasingly important area of research within social history. In six original essays and an introduction by established historians, this work focuses on the theme of the sea and leisure activities in England and Continental Europe. As well as being useful as a teaching and research text, the book should be of interest to the general reader with an interest in leisure and yachting history. |