Discovering The Boston Harbor Islands

Author : Christopher Klein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493050400
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Boston Harbor Islands written by Christopher Klein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Boston Harbor Islands: Discovering the City's Hidden Shores is an indispensable resource for those who want to uncover the best kept secret in the Northeast. Part history, part travel guide, Christopher Klein has written the most compelling invitation to explore the Boston Harbor Islands national park area to date. Explore the military installations that protected Boston during wartime—including Fort Warren, home of Confederate prisoners during the Civil War. Visit Boston Light on Little Brewster, the nation’s oldest lighthouse site. Kayak into the coves where pirates and bootleggers once hid. Dive amid century-old wrecks, or climb to the top of Spectacle Island for an altogether different view of Boston. Take in a jazz concert, an antique baseball game, or simply hop from one island to the next to experience the stunning natural beauty of this most storied national park. Complete with resource listings of recreational activities on and around the harbor islands and richly illustrated with over 150 full-color photographs, Klein’s comprehensive coverage and keen wit will inspire thousands of landlubbers and mariners to leave port for many summers to come.

Author : Christopher Klein
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781934598061
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands written by Christopher Klein and published by . This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discovering the Boston Harbor Islands is an indispensable guide to help you plan your island adventures.Explore military installations that protected Boston during wartimeincluding Civil War era Fort Warren. Visit Boston Light on Little Brewster, site of the nations oldest lighthouse. Kayak into the coves where pirates and bootleggers hid. Wander the woodlands and meadows that were the seasonal camps of Native Americans and the sites of Revolutionary skirmishes. Sail to the outer islands, find the best year-round fishing spots, and discover why the islands are a birders paradise. Take in a jazz concert, an antique baseball game, or simply hop from one island to the next to experience the stunning natural beauty of this most storied national park area.

Author : Edward Rowe Snow
Publisher : Applewood Books
ISBN 13 : 1933212853
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Islands of Boston Harbor written by Edward Rowe Snow and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2008-03-31 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reissue of Edward Rowe Snow's first book, covering the legends and history of nearly every rock and island in Boston Harbor, including Boston Light and Graves Light. The first (1935) edition resulted from research Snow did at Harvard under the tutelage of the great maritime historian Samuel Eliot Morison. When the 1971 edition of the book was published, a critic for the Boston Post wrote, "Mr. Snow has the gift of making his subject vivid and personal in its anecdotal touches . . . It is a volume of chatty yet dignified essays, with many a light touch brought in." This centennial edition contains the complete 1971 text, with annotations by Jeremy D'Entremont to bring the information up to date.

Author : Emily Kales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890460542
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book All about the Boston Harbor Islands written by Emily Kales and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Anthony Mitchell Sammarco
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing (SC)
ISBN 13 : 9780738563886
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston Harbor Islands written by Anthony Mitchell Sammarco and published by Arcadia Publishing (SC). This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Alan Mikal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Boston Harbor written by Alan Mikal and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Neil Swidey
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307886735
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trapped Under the Sea written by Neil Swidey and published by Crown. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harrowing story of five men who were sent into a dark, airless, miles-long tunnel, hundreds of feet below the ocean, to do a nearly impossible job—with deadly results A quarter-century ago, Boston had the dirtiest harbor in America. The city had been dumping sewage into it for generations, coating the seafloor with a layer of “black mayonnaise.” Fisheries collapsed, wildlife fled, and locals referred to floating tampon applicators as “beach whistles.” In the 1990s, work began on a state-of-the-art treatment plant and a 10-mile-long tunnel—its endpoint stretching farther from civilization than the earth’s deepest ocean trench—to carry waste out of the harbor. With this impressive feat of engineering, Boston was poised to show the country how to rebound from environmental ruin. But when bad decisions and clashing corporations endangered the project, a team of commercial divers was sent on a perilous mission to rescue the stymied cleanup effort. Five divers went in; not all of them came out alive. Drawing on hundreds of interviews and thousands of documents collected over five years of reporting, award-winning writer Neil Swidey takes us deep into the lives of the divers, engineers, politicians, lawyers, and investigators involved in the tragedy and its aftermath, creating a taut, action-packed narrative. The climax comes just after the hard-partying DJ Gillis and his friend Billy Juse trade assignments as they head into the tunnel, sentencing one of them to death. An intimate portrait of the wreckage left in the wake of lives lost, the book—which Dennis Lehane calls "extraordinary" and compares with The Perfect Storm—is also a morality tale. What is the true cost of these large-scale construction projects, as designers and builders, emboldened by new technology and pressured to address a growing population’s rapacious needs, push the limits of the possible? This is a story about human risk—how it is calculated, discounted, and transferred—and the institutional failures that can lead to catastrophe. Suspenseful yet humane, Trapped Under the Sea reminds us that behind every bridge, tower, and tunnel—behind the infrastructure that makes modern life possible—lies unsung bravery and extraordinary sacrifice.

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ISBN 13 : 9781889833910
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston's Harbor Islands written by and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful color photographs of the Boston Harbor Islands with the story of how they developed and how they have been saved.

Author : Kenneth Mallory
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780892725915
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boston Harbor Islands National Park Area written by Kenneth Mallory and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With gorgeous color photographs, maps, and informative text, this book guides you to each of the islands in the park and describes what you can see and do on each one. Serving not only as an information resource but also as a souvenir, Boston Harbor Islands is sure to find a place on the bookshelf of everyone with an interest in the Boston area.

Author : Edward Rowe Snow
Publisher : Snow Centennial Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781889833439
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Islands of Boston Harbor written by Edward Rowe Snow and published by Snow Centennial Editions. This book was released on 2003-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Snow's first book, reissued on the 100th anniversary of his birth, is packed with history and lore, from tales of the Puritans and Civil War days to legends of the supernatural.