Fixing Niagara Falls : environment, energy, and engineers at the world's most famous waterfall / Daniel Macfarlane ; foreword by Graeme Wynn.

"Since the late nineteenth century, Niagara Falls has been heavily engineered to generate energy behind a flowing facade designed to appeal to tourists. "Fixing Niagara Falls" reveals the technological feats and cross-border politics that facilitated the transformation of one of the most important n...

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Main Author:	Macfarlane, Daniel, 1979- (Author)
Other Authors:	Wynn, Graeme, 1946- (writer of foreword.)
Language:	English
Published:	Vancouver ; Toronto : UBC Press, [2020]
Series:	Nature, history, society.
Subjects:	Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) > History. Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) > Environmental conditions. Water-power > Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.) Ecology. Water-power. North America > Niagara Falls. History.
Genre:	History.
Physical Description:	xxxii, 295 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Issued also in electronic format.
Format:	Book