mis-GUIDE

... "Mis-guide" tourism is the latest of all the forms of "experimental tourism". And it has an unlikely home town: Exeter...
The Times, 13 September 2003

... often enlightening... positively dangerous... We loved this intriguing and amusing guide...
Devon Today, October 2003

... With the book tucked in pocket I felt entitled even licensed to poke around where it is normally discouraged even forbidden to enter... I found this an imaginative and very open invitation...
liveartmagazine, November 2003

Walkers tired of the same old scenery could follow in the footsteps of of Exeter artists Wrights & Sites whose first book pioneers a new genre in travel writing, the 'mis-guide'...
Writers' News, December 2003

... a unique guide to Exeter... includes hundreds of interesting and virtually free activities...
The Big Issue South West, December 2003

... this is an inspired publication...
Exeter Flying Post, December 2003

... one of the most unusual walking books around... a refreshing and often humorous read... [makes] us see the city in new and imaginative ways by exploring on foot...
Walk: The Magazine of the Ramblers' Association, Spring 2004

... well written, often verging on the lyrical... The authors certainly challenge the dominant notions of tourism travel, space and place they make the 'usual' unusual (the 'familiar' unfamiliar) by providing a different lens through which it is gazed upon. Such ways of approaching places and spaces not only provides options for the traveller, but also provides material and ideas that can be used within academic research as well as teaching...
leisuretourism.com, 2004

... The Mis-Guide succeeds by putting into writing small strategies, or jumping-off points, that seek to stimulate creativity in a society that seems to prefer spoon-fed entertainments and over-the-top spectacles. The graciousness with which this enterprising group of walking artists have invited us to do more than just admire, but to create art ourselves and rediscover the social function of the city, is truly an accomplishment...
Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, Winter 2005

... I have become acquainted with the work of Wrights & Sites, a site-specific collective working out of Exeter. I thoroughly recommend their excellent book An Exeter Mis-Guide...
Carl Lavery, Studies in Theatre and Performance 25.3, 2005