Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Where Freedom Awaits -- On the Mountain Pass -- Transforming the Tatras -- Turn-of-the Century Innovations -- The Hutsul Region and the Hand of Civilization -- The Advent of the Railway -- A Novel Alpine Club -- A Poland of Regions -- A Novel Wilderness -- Tourism for the Masses -- Battling for the Soul of the Bieszczady -- Power, Ecology, and the Public Sphere.
"A study of how three discrete mountain ranges within the Carpathian Mountain system -- the Tatras, Eastern Carpathians, and Bieszczady Mountains, together with their indigenous highlanders (Górale, Hutsuls, Boikos, and Lemkos)--were discovered and turned into popular tourist destinations by Poles and Ukrainians in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries" --