List if plates, List if contributors, Acknowledgements, 1. Introduction: encounters in leisure/tourism, 2. The mytho-poetic in northern travel, 3. Sensing leisure spaces, 4. Parks and gardens: metaphors for the modern places of sport, 5. Heritage and nationalism: gender and the performance of power, 6. Hyper-reality in the official (re)construction of leisure sites: the case of rambling, 7. Narrativised spaces: the functions of story in the theme park, 8. Cultural contestation at Disneyland Paris, 9. Nomadic-symbolic and settler-consumer leisure practices in Poland, 10. Tourism and sacred landscapes, 11. Design versus leisure: social implications of functionalist design in urban private gardens of the twentieth century, 12. Consuming pleasures: food, leisure and the negotiation of sexual relations, 13. Where you want to go today (like it or not): leisure practices in cyberspace, 14. That sinking feeling: elitism, working leisure and yachting, 15. Leisure places and modernity: the use and meaning of recreational cottages in Norway and the USA, 16. Leisure lots and summer cottages as places for people's own creative work, 17. Knowing, tourism and practices of vision, 18. The intimacy and expansion of space, 19. Knowledge by doing: home and identity in a bodily perspective, Name index, Subject index
David Crouch is Senior University Research Fellow at the University of Derby and visiting Professor of Geography and Tourism at Karlstadt University, Sweden.
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