{"product_id":"white-mountains-9781531622022","title":"White Mountains","description":"Since the development of photography in the midnineteenth century, the camera has been used as a \u003cbr\u003etool of both discovery and preservation. Photographs bring alive our image of the past, and can open a \u003cbr\u003efloodgate of memories and nostalgia or inspire curiosity and a sense of history. The White Mountain region, with its lofty, granitecapped peaks, steep-sided notches and sweeping valleys, long ago captured the public's imagination. The \"Cristall hills\" may have been known to European explorers as early as the 1520s when \"high mountains\" were sighted off the New England coast by Giovanni da Verrazano; Darby Field's pioneering 1642 ascent of Mount Washington initiated a period of discovery that is still taking place today. Based on several remarkable photographic collections, this book presents a chronological record of the people, localities and events that have given these ancient \u003cbr\u003ehills their extraordinary character. These images, \u003cbr\u003ecombined with illuminating and insightful captions, \u003cbr\u003ebring the reader on a nostalgic journey through the \u003cbr\u003erich social and cultural history of what was once \u003cbr\u003ecalled the \"Switzerland of America.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Arcadia Publishing Library Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781531622022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 130\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d","brand":"Randall H. Bennett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36656913612956,"sku":"9781531622022","price":33.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_dcaabcd4-6782-4ae3-ba08-9384bd140ae1.jpg?v=1603889306","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/white-mountains-9781531622022","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}