 | On the Rim: Looking for the Grand Canyon Subjects: Grand Canyon (Ariz.) -- Description and travel; Tourism -- Social aspects -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon; Tourism -- Psychological aspects -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon; Landscape -- Social aspects -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon; Landscape -- Arizona -- Grand Canyon; Why do nearly five million people travel to the Grand Canyon each year? Mark Neumann answers this question with a book as compelling as the panoramic vistas of the canyon. In On the Rim, he describes how the Grand Canyon became an internationally renowned tourist attraction and cultural icon, and delves into the meanings the place holds for the individuals who live, work, and travel there. OC In the chasmOCOs dizzying depths and flamboyant displacement of solid ground, as well as in the perceptions of those drawn thereOCoexplorers and day-trippers, employees and outlaws, artists and fast-buck artistsOCoNeumann discovers a context in which to examine cultural and experimental fissures that separate leisure and work, home and away, religion and science, art and life. . . . A lively read.OCO Boston Globe" |
