Walking Tours of Boston's Made Land

by Nancy S. Seasholes

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262693399
• ISBN13: 9780262693394
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher