High Season In Nice - Hardcover

Kanigel, Robert

3.06

31 ratings by Goodreads

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0316854956 ISBN 13: 9780316854955

Publisher: Little, Brown, 2002

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Nice is the queen of the C�te d'Azur. Founded by the Greeks some time after the sixth century BC, it has borne the tread of Roman legionnaires and Italy-bound Englishmen on the Grand Tour as well as Lost Generation literati from Hemingway to Fitzgerald. Since the late nineteenth century it has been known as a 'pleasure capital', and now tourism is its beating heart. But how did this happen? What was it that changed not just Nice or the French Riviera, but our leisure habits as a whole?

HIGH SEASON is a book about pleasure and escape - about what five months or five days in a strikingly beautiful, foreign place, wrested from lives choked with stress and toil back home, meant to a few wealthy people 250 years ago, and mean to millions more of more modest means today. It is about how modern tourism got the way it did. It is about how Nice and the Riviera became what they are; and about the price they paid to do so.

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Review:

Kanigel has delved deeply into the achives to unearth a wealth of fascinating stories written by some of the earliest visitors to Nice. (SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)

This book is full of the sound of people being happy (SUNDAY TIMES)

Kanigel unfolds the story with a panache and a conviviality worthy of the city at its best (NEW YORK TIMES)

A fascintating, well-researched and lively account . . . Sometimes, when reading this book, you can almost feel the sun on your face and sometimes a slight chill as it goes down (IRELAND ON SUNDAY)

Book Description:

* A fascinating portrait of Nice on the French Riviera, showing how the city became the birthplace of modern tourism

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