Mythic Frodo and his Predestinate Call to Adventure

The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America

William Guybon Atherstone: his 8-day and 1600 km house call to Oudtshoorn in 1890.

William Guybon Atherstone: His 8-day and 1 600 km house call to Oudtshoorn in 1890 To the Editor: William Guybon Atherstone (1814 1898) became well known because for six decades he and his father, John Atherstone, practised medicine in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape during the turbulent Frontier Wars. When not attending patients, he pursued his interests in geology and botany. He is best known...

Adventure tourism and adventure sports injury: the New Zealand experience.

The primary aims of this study were to establish a client injury baseline for the New Zealand adventure tourism and adventure sport sector, and to examine patterns and trends in claims for injury during participation in adventure activities. Content analysis of narrative text data for compensated injuries occurring in a place for recreation and sport over a 12-month period produced over 15,000 ...

Distant Episodes: A Briefing On Travels Mythic and Mundane

Advances in technology, while improving the conditions and modes of travel, have not obviated its dangers or reduced the mythical content and potential of travel experience. The present essay attempts a provisional survey of foreign travel as a recurring motif in the history of consciousness and as a mythically redolent theme in literature, film, and other forms of expression. Critical expositi...

Adventure Sports Development Paradigm

In the recent years, adventure sports have been growing increasingly. Adventure sports are new and appealing activities that regularly include some kinds of physical and mental challenges and relative presence of natural environment. These activities are presenting new paths and sometime they called as a serious competitor for mainstream sport. The aim of this study was to present a paradigm fo...