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Luxury tourism in California's wine country

George Gmelch recounts his pro baseball days with the Detroit Tigers Minor League team in the 1960s, when both he and the country were undergoing profound changes.

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Five million visitors a year travel to California's Napa Valley toexperience the good life: to taste fine wines, eat fine food, and immerse themselvesin other sophisticated pleasures while surrounded by bucolic beauty. Tourism is theworld's largest employer, and tourists today want to experience the world throughall five senses. Tasting the Good Life tells the story of Napa tourism through thewords of the tourists who visit and the men and wom...

George Gmelch is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and Union College in upstate¿New York. He is the author or editor of thirteen books, including Playing with Tigers: A Minor League Chronicle of the Sixties¿(Nebraska, 2016). Daniel A. Nathan¿is a professor and chair of American studies at Skidmore College. He is the editor of Rooting for the Home Team: Sport, Community, and Identity and past president of the North ...

George Gmelch is a professor of anthropology at the University of San Francisco and at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He is the author of fourteen books, including In the Field: Life and Work in Cultural Anthropology, In the Ballpark: The Working Lives of Baseball People, with J. J. Weiner (Bison Books, 2006), Inside Pitch: Life in Professional Baseball (Bison Books, 2006), and Baseball Beyond our Borders: The International Pastime, w...

George Gmelch is Professor of Anthropology at the University of San Francisco and Union College. He has studied Irish Travellers, return migrants, commercial fishermen, Alaska natives, Caribbean villagers and tourism workers, and American professional baseball players. He is the author of eleven books, including (with Sharon Bohn Gmelch) Tasting the Good Life: Wine Tourism in the Napa Valley (Indiana University Press, 2011). He has written two...

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