The tour guide : walking and talking New York /

Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start-and that's where the city's tour guides come in. These guides are a vital part of...

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Main Author:	Wynn, Jonathan R.
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Series:	Fieldwork encounters and discoveries.
Subjects:	Tour guides (Persons) > New York (State) > New York. Tourism > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York. Culture and tourism > New York (State) > New York. New York (N.Y.) > Description and travel. Geography. History. TRAVEL > United States > Northeast > New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT) TRAVEL > United States > Northeast > General. Electronic books.
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Summary:	Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to start-and that's where the city's tour guides come in. These guides are a vital part of New York's raucous sidewalk culture, and, as The Tour Guide reveals, the tours they offer are as fascinatingly diverse-and eccentric-as the city itself. Visitors can take tours that cover Manhattan before the arrival of European settlers, the nineteenth-century Irish gangs of Five Points, the culinary traditi.
Item Description:	Electronic resource.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (x, 226 pages) : illustrations.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-220) and index.
ISBN:	9780226919072 (electronic bk.) 0226919072 (electronic bk.) 1283242370 9781283242370