| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 87.2

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Book Review

Out of Nowhere: Disaster and Tourism in the White Mountains. By Eric Purchase. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. xvi, 192 pp. $38.00, isbn 0-8018-6013-X.)

Despite its national and international reputation as a center for tourism, recreation, and other leisure pursuits, 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. It builds with impressive originality on the chapter essays treating White Mountain tourism by John Sears in his Sacred Places: American Tourist Attractions in the Nineteenth Century (1989) and Dona Brown in her Inventing New England: Regional Tourism in the Nineteenth Century (1995). . . .

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