This Vast Book of Nature
Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911
Seiten
2006
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-58729-498-3 (ISBN)
University of Iowa Press (Verlag)
978-1-58729-498-3 (ISBN)
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Presents an account of the ways in which the White Mountains of northern New Hampshire have been written into being by different visitors, residents, and developers since the post-Revolutionary era. This book gauges how Americans have arranged space for political and economic purposes and identified it as having value beyond the economic.
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 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 purposes and identified it as having value beyond the economic. Starting with an exploration of Jeremy Belknap's 1784 expedition to Mount Washington, which Cenkl links to the origins of tourism in the White Mountains, to the transformation of touristic and residential relationships to landscape, ""This Vast Book of Nature"" explores the ways competing visions of the landscape have transformed the White Mountains culturally and physically, through settlement, development, and - most recently - preservation, a process that continues today.
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 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 purposes and identified it as having value beyond the economic. Starting with an exploration of Jeremy Belknap's 1784 expedition to Mount Washington, which Cenkl links to the origins of tourism in the White Mountains, to the transformation of touristic and residential relationships to landscape, ""This Vast Book of Nature"" explores the ways competing visions of the landscape have transformed the White Mountains culturally and physically, through settlement, development, and - most recently - preservation, a process that continues today.
Pavel Cenkl received his BA from Brandeis University, his MA from the University of New Hampshire, and his Ph.D. from Northeastern University. He is a member of the adjunct faculty in the Heritage Studies Program at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, New Hampshire. He lives just north of the White Mountains and divides his time among teaching, writing, and raising his son.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 30.9.2006 |
|---|---|
| Vorwort | Wayne Franklin |
| Zusatzinfo | 11 photos, 2 maps |
| Verlagsort | Iowa |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Gewicht | 333 g |
| Themenwelt | Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Nord- / Mittelamerika |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-58729-498-2 / 1587294982 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-58729-498-3 / 9781587294983 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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