"A brilliantly entertaining history of America's original natural
wonder and its heedless boosters and failed visionaries." -- Mike
Davis, author of "City of Quartz" and "Planet of Slums"
"As engaging as it is insightful, "Inventing Niagara" is a careful
and caring study of how myth and machine have covered over a great
natural place. Peeling back the myths and looking behind the
machines, as she brilliantly does, Strand reveals who we have been
and who we need to become." -- Curtis White, author of "The Spirit
of Disobedience" and "The Middle Mind"
"Here we have two captivating stories -- one about America's most
famous waterworks, and the other about how a self-proclaimed
'hydrogeek' schooled herself in the myths and meaning of the great
falls. Displaying wit and verve on a scale worthy of her subject,
Ginger Strand shows that Niagara has been harnessed, perhaps to a
greater degree than any other of our natural wonders, to human
purposes." -- Scott Russell Sanders, author of "A Private History
of Awe"
"Niagara Falls is where America discovered the sublime. And Ginger
Strand has discovered everything that happened since. If you want
to understand our relationship with the natural world, you better
read this book." -- Bill McKibben, author of "The Bill McKibben
Reader"
"This is a deep and exhilarating book. Its material could have been
played for irony, but Strand chose profundity instead, burrowing
down through self-conscious layers of artifice until she arrives at
a place both strange and vital." -- David Gessner, author of
"Soaring with Fidel"
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