When reviewing travel guide books, Samuel Johnson’s quote often comes to mind: “Every writer of travels should consider that...he undertakes either to instruct or please.... He that instructs must offer to the mind something to be imitated, or something to be avoided; he that pleases must offer new images to the reader, and enable him to form a tacit comparison of his own state with that of others.” Researcher Jane Eppinga meets the pleasure standard with Tombstone, part of Arcadi


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