Susan Wilson has done a wonderful job writing essentially a "travel" book in an approachable and compelling style. Her instructions and "trails" are clear and logical and take you into some of the prettiest areas in Boston and the surrounding towns. Yet while she is directing you in and among the alleyways, Wilson manages to weave a compelling history of characters and places that has you heading for your local library to check out long-forgotten authors. I've drawn up a whole "Boston" reading list to reacquaint myself with some old friends and maybe make some new ones.

Susan Wilson's guide not only takes on the 19th century period when Boston carved out a revolution in the world of ideas - and separated US culture from England, but it takes on 400 years of a multi-cultural Boston Literary History, from black 18th century poetess Phillis Wheatley to WEB DuBois and Kahlil Gibran.

It is well written and usuable. It helps you to find these places in the Boston area, and at the same time locates them in their place in Literary History.

It lets you know where the current bookstores are in Boston as well. It is really usuable, as well as readable.

I know Mr. Tanklefsky and he knows a lot about the subject of finding jobs. This book is very informative and useful. It is full of usefull information pretainting to the Boston Area job market.

I used this map for many years, and never wondered if it had any relationship to why I was getting lost all the time. Then I got a new map that is continuous. Suddenly, I could find myself when I needed to get somewhere! I didn't have to know what town I was in in order to plan a route! All the maps were at the same scale; I could tell how far away something was by where it was on the map!

That fine map has since gone out of print. I don't understand why people keep buying maps like this, instead of demanding the kind of continuous scale, contiguous maps that people everywhere else in the USA are using.

Please join me in boycotting this type of map utnil they wise up. There is a "Pocket Boston Map" on sale that is done properly, at least for all the communities inside 128. Buy that instead!

This is without a doubt the worst gudiebook I have ever used. The maps are innacurate and often wildly misleading, and the way the directions are written, it is nearly impossible not to get lost. We couldn't even follow a ride near our house where we knew the streets. Worse, many of the suggested routes are completely unsuitable for bicycle passage. We actually threw this book away, we became so frustrated with it...