Pierre Berton's Picture Book of Niagara Falls - Pierre Berton

The first man to describe this natural wonder, Father Louis Hennepin, in 1678, also provided material for the first drawing of the Falls, an engraving that wildly exaggerated the height of the twin cataracts. Scores of other artists followed to produce a visual treasure trove, showing the Falls in all its moods, in every decade and every season - locked in the ice, half obscured by spray, terrifying in some aspects, beguiling in others. Frederic Church's famous painting, reproduced in these pages, came as the climax to two centuries of remarkable art, the best of which appears in this book.;But that is only a small part of the graphic story of Niagara Falls. As the author points out, at least 100 million snapshots are taken here annually by amateur photographers from all over the world. Now, Toronto photographer Paul Cosselman has added modern colour photographs to the wealth of archival material gathered for this book. The story of hydro-electric development is told graphically with forgotten photographs of the great power palaces long since boarded up or destroyed.