3219395The Tour Guidehttps://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-tour-guide-9780226919072/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3515350/cd9600dc-2244-4871-ad4e-23d77eae8805.jpg?v=638385483858030000487677MXNUniversity of Chicago PressInStock/Ebooks/Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to startand thats where the citys tour guides come in.These guides are a vital part of New Yorks raucous sidewalk culture, and, as The Tour Guide reveals, the tours they offer are as fascinatingly diverseand eccentricas the city itself. Visitors can take tours that cover Manhattan before the arrival of European settlers, the nineteenth-century Irish gangs of Five Points, the culinary traditions of Queens, the culture of Harlem, or even the surveillance cameras of Chelseain short, there are tours to satisfy anyones curiosity about the citys past or present. And the guides are as intriguing as the subjects, we learn, as Jonathan R. Wynn explores the lives of the people behind the tours, introducing us to office workers looking for a diversion from their desk jobs, unemployed actors honing their vocal skills, and struggling retirees searching for a second calling. Matching years of research with his own experiences as a guide, Wynn also lays bare the grueling process of acquiring an official license and offers a how-to guide to designing and leading a tour.Touching on the long history of tour-giving across the globe as well as the ups and downs of New Yorks tour guide industry in the wake of 9/11, The Tour Guide is as informative and insightful as the chatty, charming, and colorful characters at its heart....3155471The Tour Guide487677https://www.gandhi.com.mx/the-tour-guide-9780226919072/phttps://gandhi.vtexassets.com/arquivos/ids/3515350/cd9600dc-2244-4871-ad4e-23d77eae8805.jpg?v=638385483858030000InStockMXN99999DIEbook20119780226919072_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9780226919072_Everyone wants to visit New York at least once. The Big Apple is a global tourist destination with a dizzying array of attractions throughout the five boroughs. The only problem is figuring out where to startand thats where the citys tour guides come in.These guides are a vital part of New Yorks raucous sidewalk culture, and, as The Tour Guide reveals, the tours they offer are as fascinatingly diverseand eccentricas the city itself. Visitors can take tours that cover Manhattan before the arrival of European settlers, the nineteenth-century Irish gangs of Five Points, the culinary traditions of Queens, the culture of Harlem, or even the surveillance cameras of Chelseain short, there are tours to satisfy anyones curiosity about the citys past or present. And the guides are as intriguing as the subjects, we learn, as Jonathan R. Wynn explores the lives of the people behind the tours, introducing us to office workers looking for a diversion from their desk jobs, unemployed actors honing their vocal skills, and struggling retirees searching for a second calling. Matching years of research with his own experiences as a guide, Wynn also lays bare the grueling process of acquiring an official license and offers a how-to guide to designing and leading a tour.Touching on the long history of tour-giving across the globe as well as the ups and downs of New Yorks tour guide industry in the wake of 9/11, The Tour Guide is as informative and insightful as the chatty, charming, and colorful characters at its heart.9780226919072_University of Chicago Presslibro_electonico_b65e6f19-b0f2-4761-b0ff-1759355cee60_9780226919072;9780226919072_9780226919072Jonathan R.InglésMéxicohttps://getbook.kobo.com/koboid-prod-public/uofchicagopress-epub-5462bd2b-a916-4b60-b8dd-d2a81d030ccb.epub2011-07-05T00:00:00+00:00University of Chicago Press