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Author : Jonathan Baxter Harrison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Condition of Niagara Falls, and the Measures Needed to Preserve Them written by Jonathan Baxter Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Baxter Harrison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book The Condition of Niagara Falls, and the Measures Needed to Preserve Them. Eight Letters Published in the New York Evening Post, the New York Tribune, and the Boston Daily Advertiser, During the Summer of 1882 written by Jonathan Baxter Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan Baxter Harrison
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Condition of Niagara Falls written by Jonathan Baxter Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It starts out as one of those average family vacations--a long, hot car ride through the middle of nowhere! But then Buzz and his family pull into a rundown roadside hotel run by some geezer in a giant spider suit, and things begin to look up. First, Buzz and his brother find evidence of alien technology. Then they find a real creepy alien! The alien keeps screaming about some special spider with secret powers, and now he's getting kinda nasty. What's more, he's got himself the perfect bargaining chip--Buzz's little brother!"--Cover back.
Author : Ginger Strand
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416564810
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book Inventing Niagara written by Ginger Strand and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 meddling than to nature's strength. Held up as an example of something real, they are hemmed in with fakery -- waxworks, haunted houses, IMAX films and ersatz Indian tales. A symbol of American manifest destiny, they are shared politely with Canada. Emblem of nature's power, they are completely human-controlled. Archetype of natural beauty, they belie an ugly environmental legacy still bubbling up from below. On every level, Niagara Falls is a monument to how America falsifies nature, reshaping its contours and redirecting its force while claiming to submit to its will. 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.
Author : Charles Mason Dow
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 790 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Anthology and Bibliography of Niagara Falls written by Charles Mason Dow and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York (State). Legislature. Assembly
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1826 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Documents of the Assembly of the State of New York written by New York (State). Legislature. Assembly and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York (State). Legislature
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 804 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Legislative Document written by New York (State). Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 804 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frederick Law Olmsted
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421416034
Total Pages : 1102 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 1102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concluding volume of the monumental Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted captures some of Olmsted's greatest achievements. Choice 2015 Outstanding Academic Title In 1890, Frederick Law Olmsted, then nearly sixty-eight years old, had risen to the pinnacle of his career. Together with his partners, stepson John Charles Olmsted and protégé Henry Sargent Codman, he was involved in a number of major ongoing projects, including the Boston, Buffalo, and Rochester park systems, the campus plan for Stanford University, and numerous private estates. In July, he reported that the firm had "twenty works of considerable importance" underway, including nine large parks and six estates that he believed were "matters of public interest." Before the summer ended, the firm's commitments would expand dramatically as Olmsted and his partners were appointed landscape architects for the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. As commissions for new park systems, residential communities, grounds for educational institutions, and private homes increased, Olmsted feared that their commitments would exceed the partners' ability to do their best work. Despite these fears, Olmsted's work in the final six years of his professional career would only enhance his considerable reputation, as the ninth and final volume of The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted reveals. With its impressive waterways, monumental buildings, and verdant islands and shores, the Chicago fair proved to be one of the firm's crowning achievements. The early 1890s also saw the culmination of Olmsted's wide-ranging work on one of his other great projects: the design of the grounds of George W. Vanderbilt's massive estate, Biltmore, near Asheville, North Carolina. In planning the estate's thousands of acres, Olmsted outlined new approaches to landscape design, promoted the creation of the first scientific forestry operation in the United States, designed a model residential subdivision, and proposed an arboretum that would have been the most ambitious in the nation. The Last Great Projects, 1890–1895, chronicles the history of one of the world's greatest landscape design firms while offering a fascinating retrospective on Frederick Law Olmsted's productive final years. The volume also gathers together the important documents of this last triumphant era. As Olmsted neared the end of his career, he wrote some of his most reflective letters and reports, summarizing the legacy of his involvement with the U.S. Sanitary Commission, the quality of landscape design in England and France, the biographical circumstances that proved most important to his development as an artist, and his hopes and fears for the future of his profession.
Author : Pierre Berton
Publisher : Anchor Canada
ISBN 13 : 0385673655
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (856 download)
Download or read book Niagara written by Pierre Berton and published by Anchor Canada. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of heroes and villains, eccentrics and daredevils, scientists, and power brokers, Niagara has a contemporary resonance: how a great natural wonder created both the industrial heartland of southern Ontario and the worst pollution on the continent.
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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271042220
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The New Niagara: Tourism, Technology, and the Landscape of Niagara Falls, 1776Ð1917 written by and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York (State) Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara
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Total Pages : 512 pages
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Download or read book Annual Report written by New York (State) Commissioners of the State Reservation at Niagara and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Shen Hou
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 082297858X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book The City Natural written by Shen Hou and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The weekly magazine Garden and Forest existed for only nine years (1888-1897). Yet, in that brief span, it brought to light many of the issues that would influence the future of American environmentalism. In The City Natural, Shen Hou presents the first "biography" of this important but largely overlooked vehicle for individuals with the common goal of preserving nature in American civilization. As Hou's study reveals, Garden and Forest was instrumental in redefining the fields of botany and horticulture, while also helping to shape the fledgling professions of landscape architecture and forestry. The publication actively called for reform in government policy, urban design, and future planning for the preservation and inclusion of nature in cities. It also attempted to shape public opinion on these issues through a democratic ideal that every citizen had the right (and need) to access nature. These notions would anticipate the conservation and "city beautiful" movements that followed in the early twentieth century. Hou explains the social and environmental conditions that led to the rise of reform efforts, organizations, and publications such as Garden and Forest. She reveals the intellectual core and vision of the magazine as a proponent of the city natural movement that sought to relate nature and civilization through the arts and sciences. Garden and Forest was a staunch advocate of urban living made better through careful planning and design. As Hou shows, the publication also promoted forest management and preservation, not only as a natural resource but as an economic one. She also profiles the editors and contributors who set the magazine's tone and follows their efforts to expand America's environmental expertise. Through the pages of Garden and Forest, the early period of environmentalism was especially fruitful and optimistic; many individuals joined forces for the benefit of humankind and helped lay the foundation for a coherent national movement. Shen Hou's study gives Garden and Forest its due and adds an important new chapter to the early history of American environmentalism.
Author : Ernest Freeberg
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143124447
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book The Age of Edison written by Ernest Freeberg and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Author : New York State Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report written by New York State Library and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Naomi Greyser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190460989
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (94 download)
Download or read book On Sympathetic Grounds written by Naomi Greyser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Sympathetic Grounds lays out sympathy's vital place in shaping North America. Naomi Greyser intersperses theoretical reflection on the affective production of space with analysis of vales of tears, heart-rending oratory, and emplotment of narrative and land in work by Sojourner Truth, Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins, Nathaniel Hawthorne and others.
Author : New-York Historical Society
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book New York Historical Society Quarterly written by New-York Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : New York Public Library
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 966 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Bulletin of the New York Public Library written by New York Public Library and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 966 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
