Chicago from the River

Rating:
Summary: A Tour Unlike Any Other
Review: I just came back from my second trip to Chicago, and a friend dragged me and four others to this so-called "architectural tour on the river", and I thought, oh, great, another organized tour. I have a natural aversion to organized tours, but how wrong I was for my prejudgment!

Words can hardly describe what an amazing docent that Ms. Joan Lindsay proved to be. All six of us friends were enraptured by what she was saying, hanging on her every word as were the rest of the people on the boat. We soaked in every fact and detail that effortlessly ran from her mouth, and her enthusiasm for her chosen study of architectural appreciation was palpable. She threw in so many funny and witty comments under her breath that had us on the floor. The way she strung all of the buildings together into an articulate, mesmerizing and entertaining tour was almost like choreography.

By the end of the tour and for the remaining 4 days of the trip, all of our walks through the city and its beautiful buildings had us spewing some fact that we had learned on the tour, as we casually threw in facts about Art Deco and Mies Van Der Rohe into our conversation like nobody's business. I wish I had her for all my lecturers back in college! I would have aced my classes the way I soaked it all in!

While this book is good, the actual tour is amazing. I will never view tours in the same way after this. If you decide to do the tour, don't forget to demand Joan Lindsay - it's absolutely not the same without her!

Rating:
Summary: A Tour Unlike Any Other
Review: I just came back from my second trip to Chicago, and a friend dragged me and four others to this so-called "architectural tour on the river", and I thought, oh, great, another organized tour. I have a natural aversion to organized tours, but how wrong I was for my prejudgment!

Words can hardly describe what an amazing docent that Ms. Joan Lindsay proved to be. All six of us friends were enraptured by what she was saying, hanging on her every word as were the rest of the people on the boat. We soaked in every fact and detail that effortlessly ran from her mouth, and her enthusiasm for her chosen study of architectural appreciation was palpable. She threw in so many funny and witty comments under her breath that had us on the floor. The way she strung all of the buildings together into an articulate, mesmerizing and entertaining tour was almost like choreography.

By the end of the tour and for the remaining 4 days of the trip, all of our walks through the city and its beautiful buildings had us spewing some fact that we had learned on the tour, as we casually threw in facts about Art Deco and Mies Van Der Rohe into our conversation like nobody's business. I wish I had her for all my lecturers back in college! I would have aced my classes the way I soaked it all in!

While this book is good, the actual tour is amazing. I will never view tours in the same way after this. If you decide to do the tour, don't forget to demand Joan Lindsay - it's absolutely not the same without her!

Rating:
Summary: Praise for "Chicago from the River"
Review: Imagine yourself lazily drifting down a placid river on a perfect summer afternoon, flanked on both sides by towering monuments erected by the architechtural geniuses of the ninteenth and twentieth centuries, their long shadows passing over you like the ghosts of the men themselves who labored over the planning, design, building, and occupation of these priceless pieces of history.

The sounds of the City surround you and the voice of your guide is almost an aria illuminating the stories behind the breathtaking views of some of the greatest architectural accomplishments of our time in the greatest city of all time...Chicago, Illinois.

Ms.Lindsay's knowlege and enthusiasm, not only of the architechtural importance of the buildings that line Chicago's famous River, but also for the nuances of their unique stories, their histories, and the personalities of the men who created them is contageous. Before you realize it, you are a convert to the wonder of this place and the energies and drives that built it up on the praire.

Ms. Lindsay captures the experience in "Chicago on the River", through breathtaking photographs which she took over the course of the thousands of trips she has made from the mouth of the River to the south end of the city and back, while illulminating and entertaining many many thousands and bringing to them her appreciation for this unique viewpoint.

Read the book and then take the tour...experience the world's greatest city from a truly unique point of view!

Rating:
Summary: Praise for "Chicago from the River"
Review: Imagine yourself lazily drifting down a placid river on a perfect summer afternoon, flanked on both sides by towering monuments erected by the architechtural geniuses of the ninteenth and twentieth centuries, their long shadows passing over you like the ghosts of the men themselves who labored over the planning, design, building, and occupation of these priceless pieces of history.

The sounds of the City surround you and the voice of your guide is almost an aria illuminating the stories behind the breathtaking views of some of the greatest architectural accomplishments of our time in the greatest city of all time...Chicago, Illinois.

Ms.Lindsay's knowlege and enthusiasm, not only of the architechtural importance of the buildings that line Chicago's famous River, but also for the nuances of their unique stories, their histories, and the personalities of the men who created them is contageous. Before you realize it, you are a convert to the wonder of this place and the energies and drives that built it up on the praire.

Ms. Lindsay captures the experience in "Chicago on the River", through breathtaking photographs which she took over the course of the thousands of trips she has made from the mouth of the River to the south end of the city and back, while illulminating and entertaining many many thousands and bringing to them her appreciation for this unique viewpoint.

Read the book and then take the tour...experience the world's greatest city from a truly unique point of view!