num_pages: 38
description: She could remember standing in a park near the falls hypnotized by the sight and sound and holding her fathers hand as they took a walk that would lead them closer. Thats what everyone wonders when they see Niagara . . . How close will their courage let them get to it? At the turn of the nineteenth century a retired sixty-two-year-old charm school instructor named Annie Edson Taylor seeking fame and fortune decided to do something that no one in the world had ever done beforeshe would go over Niagara Falls in a wooden barrel. Come meet the Queen of the Falls and witness with your own eyes her daring ride!
language: English
title: Queen of the Falls
publisher: Houghton Mifflin