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Victorian Boston Today : Twelve Walking Tours by Mary Melvin Petronella (2004, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherNortheastern University Press

ISBN-101555536050

ISBN-139781555536053

eBay Product ID (ePID)30229972

Product Key Features

Book TitleVictorian Boston Today : Twelve Walking Tours

Number of Pages352 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicUnited States / Northeast / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), Regional

Publication Year2004

IllustratorYes

GenreTravel, Architecture

AuthorMary Melvin Petronella

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight19 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2004-005762

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal917.44/6104

SynopsisThis 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, These twelve unique walking tours of Boston's nineteenth-century landmarks and luminaries provide enlightening discoveries of the city's Victorian heritage.

LC Classification NumberF73.18.V53 2004