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National parks and reserves --- National parks and reserves --- History --- Planning --- Banff National Park (Alta.) --- History.
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Nature in Translation is an ethnographic exploration in the cultural politics of the translation of knowledge about nature. Shiho Satsuka follows the Japanese tour guides who lead hikes, nature walks, and sightseeing bus tours for Japanese tourists in Canada's Banff National Park and illustrates how they aspired to become local ""nature interpreters"" by learning the ecological knowledge authorized by the National Park. The guides assumed the universal appeal of Canada's magnificent nature, but their struggle in translating nature reveals that our understanding of nature-including scientific k
Japanese --- Tour guides (Persons) --- Tour guides (Persons) --- Japanese --- Ecotourism --- Travel --- Banff National Park (Alta.) --- Japan --- Description and travel. --- Civilization
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In 1906, Nello Vernon-Wood (1882–1978) reinvented himself as Tex Wood, Banff hunting guide and writer of “yarns of the wilderness by a competent outdoorsman.” His homespun stories of a vanishing era, in such periodicals as The Sportsman, Hunting and Fishing, and the Canadian Alpine Journal, have much to tell us about the west as envisioned by those who wanted to leave the industrialized world behind. In the writings of his persona “ Tex,” Vernon-Wood created an image of the frontier that blended the West of his guiding experiences with the old West as imagined by those who flocked to the Canadian and American frontiers in search of adventure in an uncivilized wilderness. Editors Gow and Rak, guide the reader through this collection of Vernon-Wood’s stories, providing a framework for both the writer and his alter ego, Tex.
Outdoor writers --- Hunting guides --- Vernon-Wood, Tex, --- Canada, Western --- Banff Region (Alta.) --- In literature. --- Ghillies --- Gillies --- Guides, Hunting --- Guides for hunters, fishermen, etc. --- Hunters --- Authors --- Canadian Northwest --- West (Canada) --- Western Canada --- Northwest, Canadian --- anthology, hunting, fishing, skiin, sports, Banff, mountaineering, outdoorsman, guide, sawback.
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