will craig
1 Jules Verne. Journey to the Centre of the Earth . 1871. [first published in France as Voyage au centre de la terre . Paris: Pierre-Jules Hetzel, 1864] 2 The New York Time s, ‘One Word: Eyjafjallajokull’ [3/26/2010] http:// thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/one-word-eyjafjallajokull/ 3 USA Today , ‘From Iceland to Hawaii, Volcano Tourism is Suddenly Hot’ [4/23/2010] http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/travel/ destinations/2010-04-22-volcano-tourism_N.htm 4 Icelandic Tourist Board publication ‘Tourism in Iceland in Figures, April 2012’ [2012] available at http://www.ferdamalastofa.is 5 Dean MacCannell. The Tourist . Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976 6 John Urry. The Tourist Gaze: Leisure and Travel in Contemporary Societies. London: Sage, 1990 7 Chris Marker. Sans Soleil . Argos Films, 1983
Tourism may have an ability to revive geological phenomena in human consciousness. Ironically however, what tourists are compelled by is their mystery and lack of human interference. Geological phenomena are potent markers in our history, affecting communities and scarring landscapes – like Heimaey, Pompeii and Krakatoa. These are events which literally burned human history, and are not easily forgotten. In this way, these events may remain truly authentic, even sacred. A fear that has terrorised humanity (and strangely, delighted tourists) is the inevitable recurrence of the event, perhaps on this island, inside this cavernous cellar. I fear we could be buried alive. c
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