Introduction: Backpacking as a rite of passage in Israel

Israeli Backpackers: From Tourism to Rite of Passage

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 1-43

  Noy, Chaim ^a   Cohen, Erik ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

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