Not for Tourists Guide to Boston 2010, half anti-guidebook, half urban manual, is the ultimate little black book. It reveals everything from where to find the most charming architecture and impressive cultural landmarks, to where to get the best pizza and catch a movie, or simply where to go for the most impressive view of Beacon Hill and Back Bay. Whether you've called Boston your home for decades or just arrived last night, you ignore at your peril this new 2010 edition with its caustic neighbourhood summaries and refreshing, politically incorrect descriptions. Meticulously researched and written by folks who actually live there, NFT presents the city along with its good, its bad and its downright hideous. In over 300 pages of glorious content, the pocket-sized survival handbook features simply everywhere, from Central Boston to Dorchester and Southwest, also covering all the city's infamous colleges and universities. Designed for street-savvy locals, commuters, business travellers, and yes, tourists, NFT Boston includes a highly graphical map for every neighbourhood (and college campus) featured. User-friendly map icons highlight everything from coffee shops, supermarkets, landmarks, liquor stores, banks and libraries, to hardware stores, gas stations, gyms, pharmacies and even donuts! So if you're meeting friends in an unfamiliar part of the city or find yourself off the beaten track, NFT is a must-have resource. But NFT doesn't waste your time by serving up five zillion options just because they're in a database: contributors have gone back to eat, drink, dance and shop their way through last year's listings to check that they're still worth knowing.

Author: Not For Tourists
Paperback: 378 pages
Company: Not for Tourists (2009-11-18)
ISBN: 0979533910
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Author: Anonymous
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This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages.

Author: John S. Webber Jr.
Hardcover: 136 pages
Company: Kessinger Publishing, LLC (2008-10-27)
ISBN: 1437181902
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With details on everything from Bunker Hill to Central Square, this is the only guide a native or traveler needs.

The Not For Tourists Guide to Boston is the ultimate guidebook for already street-savvy Bostonians, business travelers, and tourists alike. It divides the city into twenty-eight neighborhoods, mapped out and marked with user-friendly icons identifying services and entertainment venues. Restaurants, banks, community gardens, hiking, public transportation, and landmarks—NFT packs it all into one convenient pocket-sized guide. The guide includes a foldout highway map, and sections on all of Boston, Cambridge, and Somerville. Buy it for your cah or your pawket; the NFT guide to Beantown will help you make the most of your time in the city. 110 color illustrations

Author: Not For Tourists
Paperback: 368 pages
Company: Not For Tourist (2011-11-30)
ISBN: 1616085304
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Not For Tourists is the ultimate urban guidebook. With award-winning design, handsome neighborhood maps, and thousands of essential listings on where to eat, shop, and play, NFT will help you navigate and explore Boston like a local. Written and designed by in-the-know city slickers themselves, these beautiful books are packed with priceless tips that make NFT a favorite with long-time residents and first-time travelers alike.

Author: Not For Tourists
Paperback: 376 pages
Company: Not For Tourists, Inc. (2011-01-16)
ISBN: 0982595158
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There's a ton of essential information in this Not For Tourists Guide. Featuring clear, easy-to-read maps and graphics, listings of key services, restaurants, shops, schools, entertainment venues, public transportation, parks, pull out maps and more. NFT Guides put everything residents need to take advantage of the wealth of local services and resources at their fingertips in a convenient size.

Author: Not for Tourists, Happy Mazza Media LLC
Paperback: 313 pages
Company: Not for Tourists (2004-05)
ISBN: 0974013145
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This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining, history and much more. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included. The guide is complimented by clearly marked maps that are linked to city attractions.

This travel guide also features an itinerary with our suggestions for your travel route. Itineraries include links to individual attraction articles.

NEW FEATURE: The attraction articles now include links to Google Maps. On a dedicated electronic reader with a slow connection and a primitive browser, Google Maps will display the attraction on the map along with metro stations, roads, and nearby attractions. On an internet-enabled device such as the iPhone and the iPad, Google Maps will even show you the route from your current location to the attraction you want to go to.

With this travel guide you can turn some eReaders into audio guides. For example, on the Kindle, just open an article and click Shift+SYM to activate text-to-speech. Put the speaker on the back of the Kindle against your ear and enjoy your virtual travel companion. Press Spacebar to pause/resume text-to-speech.

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Table of Contents:

Essentials: A-Z Index | Tourism Office | Units Conversion | Eat | Drink | Hotels | Stay Safe

1. General: History | Geography | Climate

2. Maps: Downtown | Cambridge | Itineraries | Subway | Commuter Rail | Boston Neighborhoods | Harbor | Harbor Islands | Cape Cod | MA

3. Transportation: Get in | Get around | MBTA | South Station | North Station | Airport

4. Attractions: Top 10 | A-Z | Itineraries | Do | Walks, Trails, Tours | Buy

5. Culture: Events | Museums | Universities | Theatres | Sports

6. Landmarks: Parks | Buildings & Structures | Skyscrapers | Churches | Registered Historic Places | Streets & Squares

7. By Area: A-Z | Emerald Necklace | Harbor | Greater Boston | Cambridge

8. Massachusetts: Get in & around | Eat & Drink | Stay safe | Get out from Boston

Author: MobileReference
Kindle Edition: 738 pages Kindle eBook
Company: MobileReference (2011-11-10) (2011-11-10)
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Tourism emerged as an important cultural activity in the United States in the 1820s as steamboats and canals allowed for greater mobility and the nation's writers and artists focused their attention on American scenery. From the 1820s until well after the Civil War, American artists, like Thomas Cole and Frederic Church, depicted American tourist attractions in their work, and often made their reputations on those paintings. Writers like Irving, Cooper, Hawthorne, and James described their visits to the same attractions or incorporated them into their fiction. The work of these artists and writers conferred value on the scenes represented and helped shape the vision of the tourists who visited them. This interest in scenery permeated the work of both serious and popular writers and artists, and they produced thousands of images and descriptions of America's tourist attractions for the numerous guidebooks, magazines, and other publications devoted to travel in the United States during the period.
Drawing on this fascinating body of material, Sacred Places examines the vital role which tourism played in fulfilling the cultural needs of nineteenth-century Americans. America was a new country in search of a national identity. Educated Americans desperately wished to meet European standards of culture and, at the same time, to develop a distinctly American literature and art. Tourism offered a means of defining America as a place and taking pride in the special features of its landscape. The country's magnificent natural wonders were a substitute for the cathedrals and monuments, the sense of history that Europe had built over the centuries. Moreover, Sears argues, tourist attractions like Mammoth Cave, Mount Auburn Cemetery, Yosemite, and Yellowstone functioned as sacred places for a nation with a diversity of religious sects and without ancient religious and national shrines. For nineteenth-century Americans, whose vision was shaped by the aesthetics of the sublime and the picturesque and by the popular nineteenth-century Romantic view of nature as temple, such places fulfilled their urgent need for cultural monuments and for places to visit which transcended ordinary reality.
But these nineteenth-century tourist attractions were also arenas of consumption. Niagara Falls was the most sublime of God's creations, a sacred place, which, like Mount Auburn Cemetery, was supposed to have a profound moral effect on the spectator. But it was also an emporium of culture where the tourist shopped for Niagara's wonders and for little replicas of the Falls in the form of souvenirs. In Sacred Places, Sears describes how this strange, sometimes amusing, juxtaposition of the mythic and the trivial, the sacred and the profane, the spiritual and the commercial remained a significant feature of American tourist attractions even after efforts were made at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Niagara Falls to curb commercial and industrial intrusions.
Sears also explores how the nineteenth-century idealization of home stimulated the tourists' response to such places as the Willey House in the White Mountains, the rural cemeteries, and even the newly established asylums for the deaf, dumb, blind, and insane. And, in an intriguing account of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, he examines the reasons why an important nineteenth-century anthracite transportation center was also a major tourist attraction.
Most of the attractions discussed in this book are still visited by millions of Americans. By illuminating their cultural meaning, Sacred Places prompts us to reflect on our own motivations and responses as tourists and reveals why tourism was and still is such an important part of American life.

Author: John F. Sears
Paperback: 243 pages
Company: Univ of Massachusetts Pr (1999-03)
ISBN: 1558491627
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Company: Langenscheidt Pub Inc (2008-10-22)
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This illustrated Travel Guide is a part of the Mobi Sights series, our concise guides that only feature the most essential information on city attractions. This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. Inside you will find a locator map and a list of top attractions linked to individual articles. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included. This travel guide also features three walking tours with our suggestions for your travel route. Walking tours include links to individual attraction articles.

Please search for "Travel Boston" part of the Mobi Travel series, if you are interested in the complete travel guide that includes more maps and attractions with additional articles on history, cultural venues, transportation, districts, dining, accommodations, units conversion, and a phrasebook.

NEW FEATURE: The attraction articles now include links to Google Maps. On a dedicated electronic reader with a slow connection and a primitive browser, Google Maps will display the attraction on the map along with metro stations, roads, and nearby attractions. On an internet-enabled device such as the iPhone and the iPad, Google Maps will even show you the route from your current location to the attraction you want to go to.

With this travel guide you can turn some eReaders into an audio guides. For example, on the Kindle, just open an article and clickShift+SYM to activate text-to-speech. Put the speaker on the back of the Kindle against your ear and enjoy your virtual travel companion. Press Spacebar to pause/resume text-to-speech.

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Author: MobileReference
Kindle Edition: 204 pages Kindle eBook
Company: MobileReference (2011-10-26) (2011-10-26)
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The durable and convenient EasyFinderTM of Massachusetts will take all the wear and tear your journey can dish out. The laminated design allows you to mark your route, make notes, then wipe the surface clean for further use.

This map features enhanced cartography with: Clearly indicated highways, County Boundaries, Streets, Points of Interest and National Parks.

Author: Rand McNally
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Company: Rand McNally & Company (2003-06)
ISBN: 0528998366
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Author: Ernest Dudley (designed and drawn by). MASSACHUSETTS / NEW YORK WORLD'S FAIR) Chase
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Company: Massachusetts Department of Commerce. Boston. 1964. (1964)
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New Fifth Edition! 167 Communities. Full color. One map per communtiy. Index on each map. Large-scale map of Central Boston. More coverage than any other atlas. Localities index. Public transportation maps. Eastern MA road map. Places of interest. Shopping centers. Community statistics.

Author: Arrow Map
Spiral-bound: 264 pages
Company: Arrow Map (2000-12-01)
ISBN: 1557514011
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The illustrated map and guide to all Massachusetts lighthouses, completely revised with new design and cartography. All standing and "lost" lighthouses in Massachusetts are located on a detailed coastal map. History and description of each lighthouse. Directions to each light or best viewing spots. Original watercolor illustrations. Directory of lighthouse cruises and island ferries. Lighthouse and maritime museums listed and located on map. True tales of Massachusetts lighthouses. For laminated poster version, enter 9781888216332 in search box.

Author: Peter Dow Bachelder, Bella Terra Publishing
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Company: Bella Terra Publishing (2009-08-04)
ISBN: 1888216328
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How do you navigate a state without a Rand McNally map? A must-have for all who drive, the Rand McNally Massachusetts State folded map offers a full-color map that shows: Interstate, U.S., state and county highways, parks, points of interest, airports, county boundaries and streets. Detailed indices help travelers locate destinations.

Author: Rand McNally
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Company: Rand McNally & Company (2003-06)
ISBN: 052899803X
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Author: Karto + Grafik Verlagsgesellschaft
Map: 1 pages
Company: Karto + Grafik Verlagsgesellschaft (1990)
ISBN: 3889892566
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Author: Elinor DeWire
Paperback: 192 pages
Company: Voyageur Press (2008-03-15)
ISBN: 0760327505
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This guide is designed for optimal navigation on eReaders, smartphones, and other mobile electronic devices. It is indexed alphabetically and by category, making it easier to access individual articles. Articles feature information about attractions, landmarks, districts, transportation, cultural venues, dining, history and much more. Addresses, telephones, hours of operation and admissions information are included. The guide is complimented by clearly marked maps that are linked to city attractions.

This travel guide also features an itinerary with our suggestions for your travel route. Itineraries include links to individual attraction articles.

NEW FEATURE: The attraction articles now include links to Google Maps. On a dedicated electronic reader with a slow connection and a primitive browser, Google Maps will display the attraction on the map along with metro stations, roads, and nearby attractions. On an internet-enabled device such as the iPhone and the iPad, Google Maps will even show you the route from your current location to the attraction you want to go to.

With this travel guide you can turn some eReaders into audio guides. For example, on the Kindle, just open an article and click Shift+SYM to activate text-to-speech. Put the speaker on the back of the Kindle against your ear and enjoy your virtual travel companion. Press Spacebar to pause/resume text-to-speech.

All travel guides in the Mobi Travel series are only $4.99 or less. Search for any title: enter mobi (short for MobileReference) and a keyword; for example: mobi Paris.

Table of Contents:

Essentials: A-Z Index | Tourism Office | Units Conversion | Eat | Drink | Hotels | Stay Safe

1. General: History | Geography | Climate

2. Maps: Downtown | Cambridge | Itineraries | Subway | Commuter Rail | Boston Neighborhoods | Harbor | Harbor Islands | Cape Cod | MA

3. Transportation: Get in | Get around | MBTA | South Station | North Station | Airport

4. Attractions: Top 10 | A-Z | Itineraries | Do | Walks, Trails, Tours | Buy

5. Culture: Events | Museums | Universities | Theatres | Sports

6. Landmarks: Parks | Buildings & Structures | Skyscrapers | Churches | Registered Historic Places | Streets & Squares

7. By Area: A-Z | Emerald Necklace | Harbor | Greater Boston | Cambridge

8. Massachusetts: Get in & around | Eat & Drink | Stay safe | Get out from Boston

Author: MobileReference
Kindle Edition: 738 pages Kindle eBook
Company: MobileReference (2011-11-10) (2011-11-10)
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Streetwise Boston Map - Laminated City Center Street Map of Boston, Massachusetts - Folding pocket size travel map with integrated trolley lines & MBTA subway map

This map covers the following areas:
Main Boston Map 1:23,000
Downtown Boston Map 1:17,000
Boston Regional Map 1:507,000
Boston Rapid Transit Map (MBTA Subway & Trolley Stations)

Navigating an unfamiliar city can be overwhelming, particularly if that city is Boston and it’s your first visit. It’s easy to lose a sense of direction in the mish-mash of one-way streets that make up this major but compact urban oasis. After only a short time, you’ll wonder if the defeat of the British was partially due to the notion that they were lost half the time. Consequently, having a well-designed map of the city of Boston is an invaluable tool, not only for first time visitors, but also for residents who have been living in Beantown for years.

The STREETWISE® Boston city map is the ultimate aid for getting around New England’s largest city, featuring a manageable yet intricately detailed layout of the entire city from the North End to Fenway, Brookline and Allston, across the river to Cambridge, and back through East Boston. The STREETWISE® Boston map also provides a complete map of the city of Boston’s public transportation options. The MBTA subway and trolley MINI METRO map covers all stops on the Green, Red, Orange, Blue, and Silver T lines. So whether you’re traveling one if by land or two if by sea, the STREETWISE® Map of Boston will get you exactly where you need to go.

Our pocket size map of Boston is laminated for durability and accordion folding for effortless use. The STREETWISE® Boston map is one of many detailed and easy-to-read city street maps designed and published by STREETWISE®. Buy your STREETWISE® Boston map today and you too can navigate Boston, Massachusetts like a native. For a larger selection of our detailed travel maps simply type STREETWISE MAPS into the Amazon search bar.

Author: Streetwise Maps
Map: 1 pages Folded Map
Company: Streetwise Maps (2010-01-01) (2011-07-01)
ISBN: 0935039082
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Metro Worcester, Central Massachusetts Street Atlas. Third Edition. 85 communities, one map per community, full color, Central MA road map, shopping centers, places of interest, community statistics.

Author: Inc Arrow Map
Spiral-bound: 108 pages
Company: Arrow Map (1999-08-01)
ISBN: 0913450979
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53 of the Region's Best Trips!

Whether you're a local looking for a long weekend escape, a visitor looking to explore or you simply need some ideas when family and friends come to visit, Lonely Planet's Trips series offers the best itineraries - and makes it easy to plan the perfect trip time and again.

Theme icons make finding the perfect trip simple - no matter what your interest

Easy-to-use maps for every trip, plus driving times and directions

Explore the region with trips ranging from two to five days, and day trips from Boston

Local experts share their favorite trip ideas, including a clam digger's seafood tour, a sculptor's art tour and a winery trip from television personality Chef Harry

Iconic Trips chapter covers must-do trips across the region, from Fall Foliage to Coastal New England

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on the road with our regional music playlists

Family-friendly and pet-friendly listings throughout

Green Index lists the region's most environmentally friendly options


Travel America with Lonely Planet
Since 1984 Lonely Planet USA has published over 100 guides to America, working with over 200 American travel writers. For this Trips series our authors drove more than 100,000 miles, visited 230 diners, stopped at 810 roadside attractions and rediscovered the country they love. Visit Lonely Planet online at www.lonelyplanet.com


Author: Ray Bartlett, Gregor Clark, Dan Eldridge, Brandon Presser
Paperback: 360 pages
Company: Lonely Planet (2009-02-15)
ISBN: 1741797284
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