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This fabled district-America's first tourist playground- boasts the highest peaks in the Northeast and the world's worst weather. Rising above the forests, lakes, and rivers of northern New Hampshire and western Maine, this storied range is the centerpiece of the 770,000-acre White Mountain National Forest. These mountains have witnessed centuries of change, from Native Americans through early European settlers, the arrival of railroads and automobiles, and the rise of the grand hotels during the region's heyday.
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Ramiro Luna
reviewed The White Mountains, NH (Making of America Series) on July 30, 2016 The White Mountains, NH
Great book on how the Mason-Dixon line was actually surveyed, which is actually a pretty exciting story. Unfortunately, Danson has to explain the technical details behind the achievement, which many other readers found difficult to follow. (If you're not good at math, especially geometry, I can see that happening. The calculations and explanations aren't particularly daunting within the text because the appendices provide most of the detail, but just hearing about triangulation and taking a tangent is enough to scare off some readers.) So, if you're looking for more of a social history or an adventure, this isn't the book for you. (Frequent mention of the grueling cold nights lying on the ground just to calibrate the astronomical equipment reminds you just how hard the life of a scientist used to be.) But if you're curious about how Mason and Dixon determined the Pennsylvania-Maryland border (the actual nitty-gritty of surveying) and measured 1 degree of latitude with a high confidence interval for their era, than this is the book for you.
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