Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies by Ginger Strand

Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power and Lies

Ginger Strand

337 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history science travel reflective medium-paced
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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 reshaped, brink stabilized, and landscape redesigned, the falls are more a monument to man's ...

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