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Imagining Niagara: The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls

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Living 40 minutes from Niagara Falls for the past 12 years, I was anxious to read more about the history of the Falls, and McGreevy's "Imagining Niagara" was my choice. Overall, it's a decent book and covers a great breadth of topics revolving around how the meaning of Niagara has changed over time (the "Editors Reviews" are very good in describing this more).

It did, however, get a bit too in-depth and academic multiple times for an average, casual reader. I would not immediately recommend this as a first book for someone wanting to learn about Niagara Falls.

That said, some parts were completely enthralling. It went into very well-written discussions and explanations on topics of general interest to anyone. The best way to summarize this (and this occurred to me over and over as I read this book) is that, if you paid good money to hire a tour guide to take you around the Falls, you would want your tour guide to have read this book. A tour guide with this kind of insight would provide a wonderful, deeply-felt, lasting impression of your visit, far beyond the already immense feelings the common visitor to the Falls takes away.

In summary, if you're planning to visit to Falls and want to take away an extraordinary appreciation of the Falls, read this book.