Author: Niagara Falls association
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Category : Niagara Falls
Languages : en
Pages :
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Circular on the Destruction of the Natural Scenery at Niagara Falls
Author: Niagara Falls association
Publisher:
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Category : Niagara Falls
Languages : en
Pages :
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Category : Niagara Falls
Languages : en
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Circular
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Category : Collective settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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Category : Collective settlements
Languages : en
Pages : 844
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The Critic
Author: Jeannette Leonard Gilder
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 438
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Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls
Author: Charles Mason Dow
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Category : Niagara Falls
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Category : Niagara Falls
Languages : en
Pages : 790
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Our New West
Author: Samuel Bowles
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Hartford Publishing Company
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Details the author's journeys and experiences across the North American continent in the summers of 1865 and 1866, exploring the Western United States.
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. : Hartford Publishing Company
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 538
Book Description
Details the author's journeys and experiences across the North American continent in the summers of 1865 and 1866, exploring the Western United States.
Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society
Publications of the Buffalo Historical Society
Author: Frank Hayward Severance
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Category : Buffalo (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Critic and Good Literature
The Niagara Companion
Author: Linda L. Revie
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554587735
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN: 1554587735
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
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.
Presenting Nature
Author: Linda Flint McClelland
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office
ISBN:
Category : Electronic government information
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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