A remarkable and beautiful book outlining the origins of the famed and admired Charles River.—Dennis Lythgoe, Deseret News, Salt Lake City, Utah—
a superb book.
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The Boston Sunday Globe Magazine—
…[a] fascinating fact-packed and photo-filled book.
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Boston Metro—
Haglund has fascinating stories to tell…serious students of urban development will be engrossed.
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H. Nolan,
ASLA—
Inventing the Charles River is a fascinating account of how a great urban area acquired its current shape.
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Philip Langdon,
New Urban News—
Inventing the Charles River makes it hard to think about the Charles in the same way again.
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Max Page,
Architecture Boston—
…lavishly illustrated with maps, etchings, lithographs, drawings, paintings, and photographs…
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APA—
…[Tells] a sweeping, detailed story of the directed evolution that produced the Charles that Bostonians and tourists cherish today.
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Civil Engineering—
The book swells with Haglund’s excellent research and hundreds of illuminating maps, photographs, and plans.
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Michael B. Shavelson,
Bostonia—
Throughly fascinating…
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Michael Kenney,
Boston Globe—
