Time Out Boston

By Time Out Guides

Book Overview

It may be best known for the sites that gave birth to the American Revolution, but Boston - along with neighbouring Ivy League university town C ambridge - is also a youthful city with innovative... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846701880
• ISBN13: 9781846701887
• Release Date: February 2011
• Publisher: Time Out
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 7.8"

Customer Reviews

Perhaps the best general guide to the Hub

This is a well researched and hip guide to Boston. Though there are some suprising (sometimes large) errors. Like repeatedly refering to South Boston's 'Seaport' district as the 'Waterfront'. Wrong. Boston's Waterfront District is well known to be located between the North End and Financial District. And although the book cites many seldom recognized gems, it overlooks venerable and cool spots like the Cantab Lounge in Cambridge's Central Square.

If only every city had a guidebook this good

Compact, informative, and useful, with a good balance between tourist info and the kind of thing you'd want to know if you were moving to Boston. The Times reviewer who called it "hip and culturally savvy" may have been revealing his own squareness -- I wouldn't say there's much truly countercultural about this book -- but it does cover everything from used record stores to gay bars, so it's not entirely stodgy, either. The maps are great and the book is small enough to keep at hand while exploring. A good choice.