Inventing Acadia: Race and Gender as Disease in Latin America

by John Wilmerding, Pamela J. Belanger, J. Gray Sweeney

Book Overview

Today, Acadia National Park is one of the nation's most popular national parks, visited by over three million people annually. But in the mid-1800s, Mount Desert Island was a remote and inhospitable wilderness. Its discovery by visiting artists such as Thomas Cole, Frederic Edwin Church, and Sanford Gifford, and its promotion through their paintings and in prints, travel books, and photographs, began a transformation of its landscape into scenic representations...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0918749093
• ISBN13: 9780918749093
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Farnsworth Pub.
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 9.1" x 11.5"