03400nam 2200661 a 450 991045411390332120200520144314.01-58729-714-0(CKB)1000000000575939(EBL)843184(OCoLC)607673498(SSID)ssj0000258904(PQKBManifestationID)11218460(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258904(PQKBWorkID)10273131(PQKB)11686484(MiAaPQ)EBC843184(MdBmJHUP)muse9224(Au-PeEL)EBL843184(CaPaEBR)ebr10354428(EXLCZ)99100000000057593920060314d2006 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrThis vast book of nature[electronic resource] writing the landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911 /Pavel Cenkl ; foreword by Wayne FranklinIowa City University of Iowa Pressc20061 online resource (209 p.)American land and life seriesDescription based upon print version of record.1-58729-498-2 Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-172) and index.Contents; 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 andWhite Mountain Tourism; 4 Alone with Scribe and Staff: Rewriting the White Mountains,1870 - 1900; Epilogue: Reading and Teaching Region; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis 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 era to the days of high tourism at the beginning of the twentieth century. Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, Pavel Cenkl gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purposAmerican land and life series.LandscapesWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)HistoriographyNatural historyWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)HistoriographyLandscapes in literatureTourismWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)HistoryWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)HistoriographyWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)Environmental conditionsHistoriographyWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)Description and travelElectronic books.LandscapesHistoriography.Natural historyHistoriography.Landscapes in literature.TourismHistory.974.2/203072Cenkl Pavel1971-919936MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910454113903321This vast book of nature2063402UNINA