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Author Revie, Linda L. (Linda Lee)

Title The Niagara companion : explorers, artists and writers at the Falls, from discovery through the twentieth century / Linda L. Revie
Published Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2003

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Description 1 online resource (x, 212 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Acknowledgments; List of Figures; Introduction; Chapter 1; Indian Icons and Wilderness Ideals; Chapter 2; Challenges of the Niagara Sublime; Chapter 3; Naturalist Observations and Feats of Physical Endurance; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary "In The Niagara Companion, Linda Revie considers how three centuries of fine art depictions and travel narratives were influenced by the earliest European encounters with the waterfall. 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 prevailed."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-205) and index
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Subject HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Literature
Travel
SUBJECT Niagara Falls (Ont.) -- In art
Niagara Falls (Ont.) -- Description and travel
Niagara Falls (Ont.) -- In literature
Niagara Falls (Ont.) -- History
Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.) -- Description and travel
Niagara Falls Region (N.Y. and Ont.) -- History
Niagara Frontier (N.Y.) -- Description and travel
Niagara Frontier (N.Y.) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002303
Subject North America -- Niagara Falls Region
Ontario -- Niagara Falls
Genre/Form Art
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780889206359
088920635X
1554587735
9781554587735
9786610925827
6610925828