Book Description
Strand reveals the hidden history of America's most iconic natural wonder, Niagara Falls, illuminating what it says about our history, our relationship with the environment, and ourselves.
Author : Ginger Strand
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 19,67 MB
Release : 2008-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1416546561
Strand reveals the hidden history of America's most iconic natural wonder, Niagara Falls, illuminating what it says about our history, our relationship with the environment, and ourselves.
Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Buffalo [N.Y.] : Underhill and Nichols
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 20,23 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
ISBN :
Author :
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,63 MB
Release :
Category :
ISBN : 9780271042220
Author : Edward Theodore Williams
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,1 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Niagara Falls
ISBN :
Author : Joseph William Spencer
Publisher : New York : Humboldt
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 1895
Category : Great Lakes (North America).
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Author :
Publisher :
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 1893
Category : Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
ISBN : 0543926613
This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Underhill and Nichols in Buffalo, 1893.
Author : Linda L. Revie
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 2010-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1554587735
What is it about Niagara Falls that fascinates people? What draws them to it? Is it love, obsession, or fear? In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie searches for an answer to these questions by examining the paintings and writings about the Falls from the late seventeenth century, when the first Europeans discovered Niagara, to the early twentieth century. Linda Revie’s study considers how three centuries of representations are shaped by the earliest encounters with the waterfall and notes shifts in the construction of landscape features and in human figures, both Native and European, in the long history of fine art depictions. Travel narratives, both literary and scientific, also come under her scrutiny, and reveal how these chronicles were influenced by previous pictures coming out of Niagara, particularly some of the first from the seventeenth century. In all of these portraits and texts, she notes a common pattern of response from the observers — moving from anticipation, to disappointment, to a kind of recovery. But in the end, there is fear. Even long after Niagara had become a tourist mecca, it was often drawn as a primordial wilderness — a place where civilization vies with wildness, artifice with nature, fear with control, the natural with the mastered. Throughout this history of images and narratives, as humans struggle to control nature, the notion of wildness prevails. Those who want a deeper understanding of why Niagara Falls continues to fascinate us, even today, will find Linda Revie’s book an excellent companion.
Author : Charles Mason Dow
Publisher :
Page : 790 pages
File Size : 40,47 MB
Release : 1921
Category : Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.)
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Author : William Dean Howells
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,65 MB
Release : 2015-11-19
Category :
ISBN : 9781346794723
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Author : Charles R. Edwards
Publisher : Buffalo, N.Y. : Breed, Lent
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 30,19 MB
Release : 1870
Category : Niagara Falls
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