Out of Nowhere: Disaster and Tourism in the White Mountains: Eric Purchase
Review
“New Hampshire’s White Mountain region has received little attention in serious book-length scholarship. Eric Purchase’s brilliant and thought-provoking study, Out of Nowhere, helps to rectify this deficiency. Thoroughly researched, well organized, and easily readable, this work represents a major contribution to the eclectic literature pertaining to the White Mountains as well as to the history of tourism in the United States..” — Bryant F Tolles, Jr., Journal of American History
“Cleverly conceived… In Purchase’s able hands, the disaster becomes the apt juncture of the interacting forces of capitalism and art as they together create an American appreciation for nature.” — Mark Stoll, American Historical Review
“A fascinating perspective on American landscape values and their articulation in a single event with enormous national implications.” — Richard W. Judd, Environmental History
Review
“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. StilgoeHarvard University, author of Alongshore
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