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The Niagara Book
Language: en
Pages: 426
Authors: William Dean Howells
Categories:
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-10-18 - Publisher: Franklin Classics Trade Press

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi
Niagara
Language: en
Pages: 509
Authors: Pierre Berton
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-03-31 - Publisher: SUNY Press

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A sweeping history of this natural wonder, from its geological beginnings to the present. "The noble cataract reflects the concerns, failings, and fancies of th
Fixing Niagara Falls
Language: en
Pages: 333
Authors: Daniel Macfarlane
Categories: Technology & Engineering
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-01 - Publisher: UBC Press

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Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing façade designed to appeal to tourists. Fixing
The Niagara River
Language: en
Pages: 96
Authors: Kay Ryan
Categories: Poetry
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-12-01 - Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

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A mesmerizing collection from the US Poet Laureate whose work is “as intense and elliptical as [Emily] Dickinson, as buoyant and rueful as [Robert] Frost” (
Inventing Niagara
Language: en
Pages: 363
Authors: Ginger Strand
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-05-06 - Publisher: Simon and Schuster

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Americans call Niagara Falls a natural wonder, but the Falls aren't very natural anymore. In fact, they are a study in artifice. Water diverted, riverbed reshap