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Wanderjahr| apprenticeship of a modern nomad

Year: 2004
Type: dissertation
Abstract: Wanderjahr is a work of creative non-fiction that brings together stories &om a year of travel and research in Latin America.The ten chapters included here, a book-in-progress, weave together first-person narration of the joumey with exposition about a variety of conservation and ecotourism endeavors as well as personal reflection on the world in which the narrator has been raised.Overarching themes of the work include the social and environmental impacts of global tourism, reflection on the meaning of the words "wild" and "wildemess," and mminations about modem "nomadism" and what it means to be "placed" in an increasingly mobile and changing world.
Language: German
Subfield: History
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W774283538
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