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This vast book of nature : writing the landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911 /

This Vast Book of Nature is a careful, engaging, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire--and, by implication, other wild places--have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers from the post-Revolutionary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Cenkl, Pavel, 1971-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2006.
Colección:American land and life series.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The White Mountains from Northern Frontier to Tourist Resort; 1 Texts and Terrain: Jeremy Belknap and Eighteenth-CenturyLandscape Ideology; 2 Economic Topographies: Unsettling the History of Early Tourismin New Hampshire's White Mountains; 3 The Sublime and the Sumptuous: The Currency of Scenery and White Mountain Tourism; 4 Alone with Scribe and Staff: Rewriting the White Mountains,1870
  • 1900; Epilogue: Reading and Teaching Region; Notes; Bibliography; Index