This Vast Book of Nature: Writing the Landscape of New Hampshire's White Mountains, 1784-1911 (American Land & Life) - Cenkl, Pavel

Clean, tight, unmarked; previous owner's name on ffep; very light wear to edges of dust jacket; otherwise very minimal wear; Drawing on tourist brochures, travel accounts, pictorial representations, fiction and poetry, local histories, journals, and newspapers, this book 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 20th century.

Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Hardcover
University Of Iowa Press
2006
Iowa City, IO