Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
Language: English
Published by Simon & Schuster, 2008
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: ELK CREEK HERITAGE BOOKS (IOBA), TOMS RIVER, NJ, U.S.A.ELK CREEK HERITAGE BOOKS (IOBA)
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Stated First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition May 2008. In addition there is a complete number line including number one. Hard cover in very good condition with cream boards and spine cloth and gold gilt spine lettering. Signed by the author on the Title Page (signature not authenticated.) Otherwise text block clean & tight; no writings, no markings noted. Contains a section of glossy black & white and colored photographs and illustrations. Dust jacket very good with light shelf and edge wear, and very unusual, when opened up completely dust jacket measures 23 1/2" wide x 18 5/8" tall. See photo of entire jacket. Folds to fit the book. What can't be completely seen when folded are photos that look very much like postcards and depict scenes around the falls. Not price clipped. * Noted on the copyright page: 'Material in this book has appeared previously in 'The Believer,' 'Orion,' and the anthology 'The Future of Nature.' From the book, 'Combining history, reportage and personal narrative, .traces Niagara's journey from sublime icon to engineering marvel to camp spectacle. . . .uncovers the hidden history of America's waterfall.'.…
Seller Inventory # M001205
- Title
- Inventing Niagara: Beauty, Power, and Lies
- Author
- Strand, Ginger
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Publication year
- 2008
- Condition
- Very Good
- Dust jacket
- Very Good
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1416546561
- ISBN 13
- 9781416546566
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Geography & Maps, History of New York, Signed &/or Inscribed
Combining history, reportage and personal narrative, Inventing Niagara traces Niagara's journey from sublime icon to engineering marvel to camp spectacle. Along the way, Ginger Strand uncovers the hidden history of America's waterfall: the Mohawk chief who wrested the Falls from his adopted tribe, the revered town father who secretly assisted slave catchers, the wartime workers who unknowingly helped build the Bomb and the building contractor who bought and sold a pharaoh. With an uncanny ability to zero in on the buried truth, Strand introduces us to underwater dams, freaks of nature, mythical maidens and 280,000 radioactive mice buried at Niagara.
From LaSalle to Lincoln to Los Alamos, Mohawks to Marilyn, Niagara's story is America's story, a tale of dreams founded on the mastery of nature. At a time of increasing environmental crisis, Inventing Niagara shows us how understanding the cultural history of nature might help us rethink our place in it today.
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