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Out of Nowhere: Disaster and Tourism in the White Mountains

Out of Nowhere: Disaster and Tourism in the White Mountains


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An examination of the connection of an avalanche on Monday 28th August 1826 in isolated Crawford Notch, New Hampshire, to the rise of tourism in America. It investigates developments that ranged from land speculation to new interpretations of the meaning of nature and landscape. The tragedy that killed innkeeper Samuel Willey, his wife, five young children and two hired men, was widely recorded in literature, art, travel writing, newspapers and scientific journals, and was the first national disaster in the US to capture national attention. Nineteenth-century Americans were intrigued with nature's sheer perversity in destroying an entire family while leaving its house untouched. Suddenly the White Mountains became, in the public's imagination, a mythical place where nature was preserved in its original, potent state. Artists and writers such as Thomas Cole, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James and Charles Lyell, began travelling there every summer to take vacations amid the romantic landscape, and the Willey house became one of the area's most popular attractions.

About the Author :
A writer and scholar, Eric Purchase studies the relationship between land, experience, and the imagination in America. He has lived in Colorado, Connecticut, New York, and North Carolina. He holds a Ph.D. degree in comparative literature from the University of Connecticut and is currently writing a book on the creative uses of reading.

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"'Out of Nowhere' is a very solid analysis of the Willey Slide, the development of the White Mountains into an important early tourist area, and the impact that land speculation had on an emerging American awareness of the meaning of landscape. Purchase's book is impressively complete, well argued, well written, and admirably original in its conclusions."--John R. Stilgoe, Harvard University, author of 'Alongshore'


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780801860133
  • Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Height: 235 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 500 gr
  • ISBN-10: 080186013X
  • Publisher Date: 17 Mar 1999
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: Disaster and Tourism in the White Mountains
  • Width: 155 mm


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