The Pocketbook and The HandbookThere are 2 books: The Pocketbook is a 'take-me-with-you-on-an-outing' guide with 50 tactics to try when you get there. The Handbook is longer with more serious stuff and many more tactics for visiting and intervening in historic/heritage sites. Both are the work of Crab Man - alias Phil Smith.
Counter-Tourism: A Pocketbook ~ Buy a print copy of the Pocketbook
Buy the Kindle edition from amazon.co.uk ~ or from amazon.com 2012 ~ Triarchy Press Author: Crab Man ~ ISBN: 978-1-908009-67-8 ~ Paperback £5.99 This is the ideal introduction to counter-tourism. The subtitle – 50 Odd Things to do in a Heritage Site (and other places) – tells you what you need to know. Take it with you next time you visit a historic/heritage site. Its 50 ‘tactics’ are designed to transform the way you look at these places and to get you thinking about the way the industry packages ‘heritage’. It’s also a nice present for parents, grandparents and other reluctant tourists. Among the ideas, you’ll find ‘Photograph all the stains’ and ‘Visit heritage sites as if you were a member of a bomb disposal team’ – some come with more elaborate instructions but others are as simple as that. Read what people have said about the Pocketbook. Buy a copy of Counter-Tourism: A Pocketbook Counter-Tourism: The Handbook
Buy a printed copy of The Handbook. Buy the Kindle edition from amazon.co.uk ~ or from amazon.comBuy the Epub version: available here 2012 ~ Triarchy Press Author: Crab Man Includes around 200 colour photographs and images. Paperback: £12 ~ ISBN: 978-1-908009-87-6 There’s a whole radical philosophy underpinning Crab Man’s approach to heritage, which has its own ‘proper’ book. This is it. With hundreds of tactics and images, philosophical diversions and asides, the Handbook is for anyone who wants to explore the ideas of counter-tourism in more depth. Part 2 of the Handbook has ideas on how to extend the tactics into interventions that can be planned and performed in heritage sites. And Part 3 goes on to suggest open ‘infiltrations’ that can be used by artists, performers, radical tourists and even heritage site managers themselves to reinvent their own sites. Alongside this there’s a photo-essay on using the tactics, and a full bibliography. The Handbook is a bridge between the playful practicality of the Pocketbook and the wonderland Mythogeography. Buy a printed copy of The Handbook. Buy the Kindle edition from amazon.co.uk ~ or from amazon.com Buy the Epub version: available here Read what people have said about the Handbook. |
The Pocketbook and The Handbook
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