| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 106.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Eric Purchase. Out of Nowhere: Disaster and Tourism in the White Mountains. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1999. Pp. xiii, 192. $38.00.

Eric Purchase's book is cleverly conceived. The central action of the title was over in seconds: during a violent thunderstorm on the night of August 28, 1826, a landslide swept down the slopes of Mount Willey in New Hampshire's White Mountains and buried the nine-person household of Samuel Willey—while sparing the house from which they had fled. Nevertheless this bizarre tragedy captured the attention of Americans for many decades. 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. . . .

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