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This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about ‘the edges of the world’. The contributors examine the attraction of the sublime, remoteness, continental border-points, and the dangers of the sea in Finisterre (or Fisterra) in Galicia (Spain); Finistère in Brittany (France); Land’s End, Cornwall (England); Lough Derg (Ireland); Nordkapp or North Cape (Norway); Cape Spear, Newfoundland (Canada); and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). While those travelling to these locations can be seen to be conducting some form of religious or secular pilgrimage, those who live in them have long contended with the implications of economic and political marginalization within global political economies.

Culture and tourism. --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages. --- Historical geography. --- Geography, Historical --- Geography --- Pilgrimages and pilgrims --- Processions, Religious --- Travelers --- Voyages and travels --- Shrines --- Spiritual tourism --- Ethnotourism --- Tourism and culture --- Tourism --- Culture and tourism --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages --- Historical geography --- Borders. --- Coastal tourism. --- Continental border-points. --- Finisterres. --- Geographically remote locations. --- Land's ends. --- Secular pilgrimage. --- The attraction of the extreme. --- The sublime. --- Tourist imaginaries.