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IAN OUSBY. The Englishman 's England: Taste, Travel and the Rise of Tourism. Cambridge: Cambridge, 1990. Pp. xiv + 244. $27.95.
Mr. Ousby meditates on the dilemma of mass tourism; the traveler seeks the quaint, untouched village, castle, virgin woods, limpid brooks but ends up jostling other tourists like himself in more polluted scenes. The author covers the origins of tourism in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century practices. He also demonstrates from the great country homes like Houghton, Blenheim, Chatsworth or the...