The American Dream: Technology, Tourism, and the Transformation of Wilderness

Marafiote, Tracy

doi:10.1080/17524030802141737

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“…National Geographic's rendering of Africa presents a complicated environmental aesthetic, echoing tensions between increasing tourism and consumption and wilderness preservation (see Marafiote, 2008). The high-resolution photographs and poetic text of these glossy magazines portray an Africa that is simultaneously a vast, dangerous continent struggling for survival, a luxury destination of beautiful nature, and place of whimsical wildlife to be trekked and explored.…”

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