The Rise of the Tourist South in the Americas
by
Catherine Cocks
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
As late as 1900, most whites regarded the tropics as "the white man's grave," a realm of steamy fertility, moral dissolution, and disease. So how did the tropical beach resort—white sand, blue waters, and towering palms—become the iconic vacation landscape? Tropical Whites explores the...