Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land
$94.72
- Paperback
224 pages
- Release Date
18 September 2006
Summary
Exploring Boston’s past and present- 12 walks that trace the creation of the city’s man-made land in the central waterfront, Back Bay, South End, Charlestown, and elsewhere.At its founding, Boston was a small peninsula; over the last 375 years the city has doubled in size by filling in the surrounding tidal flats-areas covered with water at high tide and exposed at low. In Walking Tours of Boston’s Made Land, historian Nancy Seasholes outlines twelve walks that trace where and why Boston’s ma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262693394 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0262693399 |
| Author: | Nancy S. Seasholes |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 224 |
| Release Date: | 18 September 2006 |
| Weight: | 318g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 13mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
| Audience Age: | 18 |
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Walking Tours of Boston’s Made Land is a richly detailed guide to 12 walks through land ‘made’ as Boston’s original shoreline was filled in and expanded outward.
—Boston Sunday Globe[Seasholes’] guide is valuable not only for the visitor to Boston but for anyone wanting a feel for early Boston history and the creation of a port city.
—Library JournalAbout The Author
Nancy S. Seasholes
Nancy S. Seasholes is a historian and historical archaeologist. She is the author of Walking Tours of Boston’s Made Land (MIT Press), the companion to Gaining Ground.
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