Twelve Walking Tours
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/05/2004
This lavishly illustrated guidebook to the many distinctive attractions of Boston's Victorian heritage provides the walker and the armchair traveler alike with delightful and enlightening discoveries of the city's remarkable treasure trove of nineteenth-century landmarks and luminaries. Designed and written by a diverse group of specialists in history, architecture, literature, and culture, the narrators of these twelve unique tours offer rich historical detail and engaging anecdotes about this vibrant period in Boston's past. Victorian Boston Today, edited by Mary Melvin Petronella for the New England Chapter of the Victorian Society of America, includes a beautifully drawn map for each tour, and contains such features as expanded descriptive captions for the profuse vintage illustrations, telephone numbers and web addresses for sites open to the public, directions between tour sites, information about public transportation, and a wealth of other practical enhancements and tips. From the South End's signature residential squares, to the Black Heritage Trail[registered], to Jamaica Plain's pastoral landscape, these walking tours vividly recapture the spirit of Victorian Boston. The
- ISBN:
- 9781555536053
- 9781555536053
- Category:
- Travel & holiday guides
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-05-2004
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Northeastern University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 336
- Dimensions (mm):
- 214x161x19mm
- Weight:
- 0.51kg
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