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200 10$aThis vast book of nature$b[electronic resource] $ewriting the landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911 /$fPavel Cenkl ; foreword by Wayne Franklin
210   $aIowa City $cUniversity of Iowa Press$dc2006
215   $a1 online resource (209 p.)
225 1 $aAmerican land and life series
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a1-58729-498-2 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [159]-172) and index.
327   $aContents; 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; Index
330   $aThis 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 purpos
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606   $aLandscapes$zWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)$xHistoriography
606   $aNatural history$zWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)$xHistoriography
606   $aLandscapes in literature
606   $aTourism$zWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)$xHistory
607   $aWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)$xHistoriography
607   $aWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistoriography
607   $aWhite Mountains (N.H. and Me.)$xDescription and travel
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