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Thoreau's Cape Cod - Hardcover
Boston never had one great open
space to develop for public recreation. So after making his
reputation with the design and development of New York's Central
Park during the Civil War, the father of American landscape
design, Frederick Law Olmsted, faced a new challenge when
commissioned to prepare a unified park design for Boston.
Bostonians today can walk from the Common (the principal public
space in Olde Boston) through the Public Garden and up
Commonwealth Avenue to the beginning of Olmsted's design.
Passing through the Back Bay Fens and out along the Riverway,
his Emerald Necklace links Jamaica Park and Pond with the Arnold
Arboretum and Franklin Park, each of them a unique and treasured
space open to the public.
Dan Tobyne's beautiful color photography celebrates this string
of Boston jewels. Perry McIntosh's text tells how Olmsted
created the Emerald Necklace and describes the priceless parks
so perfectly captured by Tobyne.