High Season: How One French Riviera Town Has Seduced Travelers for Two Thousand Years
by Robert Kanigel 
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Nice is the queen of the Côte d'Azur. Founded by the Greeks some time after the sixth century BC, it has borne the tread of Roman legionnaires and Italy-bound Englishmen on the Grand Tour as well as Lost Generation literati from Hemingway to Fitzgerald. Since the late nineteenth century it has been known as a 'pleasure capital', and now tourism is its beating heart. But how did this happen? What was it that changed not just Nice or the French Riviera, but our leisure habits as a whole? HIGH show more SEASON is a book about pleasure and escape - about what five months or five days in a strikingly beautiful, foreign place, wrested from lives choked with stress and toil back home, meant to a few wealthy people 250 years ago, and mean to millions more of more modest means today. It is about how modern tourism got the way it did. It is about how Nice and the Riviera became what they are; and about the price they paid to do so. show lessTags
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Robert Kanigel teaches at MIT and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Common Knowledge
- Alternate titles
- High Season in Nice
- Important places
- Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France; French Riviera
Classifications
- Genres
- Nonfiction, Travel, General Nonfiction, History
- DDC/MDS
- 914.4 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in Europe France and Monaco
- LCC
- DC801 .N68 .K36 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France Local history and description Other cities, towns, etc., A-Z
- BISAC
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
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