``The Niagara Companion is a well written and very well researched cultural analysis of artistic, literary, touristic, and scientific responses to on of the world's greatest natural wonders....As each chapter proceeds, and the authors and texts multiply, her analysis deepens in complexity. At the end of each of her three longest chapters--one on painters, the next on writiers and the last on scientific writers--she masterfully brings together and synthesizes an overview of each artistic or scientific approach.'' -- Jeannette Sloniowski -- American Review of Canadian Studies, Autumn 2006, 200606 ``There is interesting information on almost very page of The Niagara Companion.'' -- Christoph Irmscher -- Canadian Literature, 186, Autumn 2005, 200512 ``A visit to Niagara has always been much more than a walk in the park. For centuries, generations of writers, artists, scientists, and explorers have used their excursion to reflect and pontificate. Linda Revie is an admirable and erudite guide to their literary rambles.'' -- Karen Dubinsky, Queen's University, author of The SecondGreatest Disappointment: Honeymooning and Tourism at NiagaraFalls ``As I write this review, it has just been announced that Niagara Falls did not make the cut in Canada's 2004 list of nominations for World Heritage Site status. Why? Apparently, for the World Heritage Organization adjudicators, Niagara's sublimity is compromised by the intrusion of pragmatic technology and commerical exploitation. They should have read Revie's fine study.'' -- Brian Osborne, Journal of Historical Geography -- Journal of Historical Geography, 30, 2004, 200606 ``The Niagara Companion signals a new maturity to Niagara scholarship, the modern revival of which is less than two decades old. Incorporating insights from recent aesthetic, feminist, and travel theorists, Revie takes a fresh look at selected visitors and the pictures and texts they created. Her singular accomplishment is to show how Niagara's visitors -- freighted with gender, class, national, and aesthetic commitments -- nevertheless struggled to produce distinctive individual responses to the great cataract. Illustrating how they wrestled with commitments, conventions, and the reality of Niagara Falls, Revie complicates our understanding of these visitors but recovers for us a compelling sense of their humanity.'' -- Patrick McGreevy, Clarion University, author of ImaginingNiagara: The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls ``A fascinating and wonderfully readable evocation of how generations of artists have tried to understand the extraordinary phenomenon that is Niagara Falls. It should be in the backpack of every literate tourist.'' -- Kevin McMahon, Primitive Entertainment, Toronto; director of The Falls: A Cautionary Tale
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