Nieves Herrero is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her research interests include cultural heritage, cultural tourism and gender studies.Sharon R. Roseman is Professor of Anthropology and Academic Editor of ISER Books at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada. She is editor of the European Anthropology in Translation book series (Berghahn Books).

This volume inscribes itself in the emerging scholarship on the role of imaginaries in tourism and beyond. The authors take the reader on an imaginative journey to various (physical) ‘edges of the world’. Their in-depth scholarly analyses reveal how people, in the past and today, are drawn to these peripheral geographical sites as tourists and pilgrims.

• 1. Sharon R. Roseman and Nieves Herrero: Introduction2. Nieves Herrero: Galicia’s Finisterre and Coast of Death3. Charles Menzies: At the End of the Road: Reflections on Finistère, Land’s End, France4. Michael Ireland: Land’s End, Cornwall, England5. Lawrence J. Taylor and Maeve Hickey: Pilgrimage to the Edge: Lough Derg and the Moral Geography of Europe and Ireland6. Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen: North Cape – In the Land of the Midnight Sun7. Wayne Fife and Sharon R. Roseman: Where North America Ends8. Laura M. Horlent and Mónica C. Salemme: Finis Terrae: The End-of-the-World Imaginary in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)

Nieves Herrero is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her research interests include cultural heritage, cultural tourism and gender studies.Sharon R. Roseman is Professor of Anthropology and Academic Editor of ISER Books at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada. She is editor of the European Anthropology in Translation book series (Berghahn Books).

This volume inscribes itself in the emerging scholarship on the role of imaginaries in tourism and beyond. The authors take the reader on an imaginative journey to various (physical) ‘edges of the world’. Their in-depth scholarly analyses reveal how people, in the past and today, are drawn to these peripheral geographical sites as tourists and pilgrims.

• 1. Sharon R. Roseman and Nieves Herrero: Introduction2. Nieves Herrero: Galicia’s Finisterre and Coast of Death3. Charles Menzies: At the End of the Road: Reflections on Finistère, Land’s End, France4. Michael Ireland: Land’s End, Cornwall, England5. Lawrence J. Taylor and Maeve Hickey: Pilgrimage to the Edge: Lough Derg and the Moral Geography of Europe and Ireland6. Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen: North Cape – In the Land of the Midnight Sun7. Wayne Fife and Sharon R. Roseman: Where North America Ends8. Laura M. Horlent and Mónica C. Salemme: Finis Terrae: The End-of-the-World Imaginary in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)

Nieves Herrero is Associate Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain. Her research interests include cultural heritage, cultural tourism and gender studies.Sharon R. Roseman is Professor of Anthropology and Academic Editor of ISER Books at Memorial University of Newfoundland in St. John’s, Canada. She is editor of the European Anthropology in Translation book series (Berghahn Books).

This volume inscribes itself in the emerging scholarship on the role of imaginaries in tourism and beyond. The authors take the reader on an imaginative journey to various (physical) ‘edges of the world’. Their in-depth scholarly analyses reveal how people, in the past and today, are drawn to these peripheral geographical sites as tourists and pilgrims.

• 1. Sharon R. Roseman and Nieves Herrero: Introduction2. Nieves Herrero: Galicia’s Finisterre and Coast of Death3. Charles Menzies: At the End of the Road: Reflections on Finistère, Land’s End, France4. Michael Ireland: Land’s End, Cornwall, England5. Lawrence J. Taylor and Maeve Hickey: Pilgrimage to the Edge: Lough Derg and the Moral Geography of Europe and Ireland6. Jens Kr. Steen Jacobsen: North Cape – In the Land of the Midnight Sun7. Wayne Fife and Sharon R. Roseman: Where North America Ends8. Laura M. Horlent and Mónica C. Salemme: Finis Terrae: The End-of-the-World Imaginary in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina)