Taking a Hike and Hucking the Stout: The Troublesome Legacy of the Sublime in Outdoor Recreation

As Henry Thoreau noted in the 1850s, the simple act of walking can be loaded with political and spiritual meaning. Today, taking a hike as an act of engaging in outdoor recreation is equally non-trivial, and therefore subject of the following analysis. As this paper argues, outdoors recreation is st...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Georg Drennig
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Linköping University Electronic Press 2013-12-01
Series:Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.3384/cu.2000.1525.135551