Charles River Basin > Books About the Charles River

For those of you who want to read about the Charles River, we suggest the following texts. Some are of general interest and others are of more special interest. If you're interested in a more extensive bibliography of material about the Charles River, contact the Conservancy.

General interest

• Eliot, Charles W. Charles Eliot: Landscape Architect. Forward by Keith Morgan. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
• Hall, Max. The Charles: The People's River. Boston, MA: David R. Godine, 1986.
• Kreiger, Alex and David Cobb with Amy Turner. Mapping Boston. Boston, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
• Marchione, William P. The Charles; A River Transformed. Dover, NH: Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
• McAdow, Ron. The Charles River: Exploring Nature on Foot and by Canoe. Marlborough, MA: Bliss Publishing Co,1992.
• Metropolitan District Commission. The New Charles River Basin Master Plan. Boston, MA: Metropolitan District Commission, 1995.
• Sanmarco, Anthony Mitchell. Cambridge: Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1999.
• Sanmarco, Anthony Mitchell. Boston's West End: Images of America. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 1998.
• Tougias, Michael. Exploring the Hidden Charles. Boston, MA: Appalachian Mountain Club Books, 1997.

Specialized interest

• American Society of Civil Engineers. Boston's Charles River Basin: An Engineering Landmark. Boston: Journal of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Vol 67, No 4, 1981.
• Bunting, Bainbridge & Nylander, Robert H. Report Four: Old Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: Cambridge Historical Commission & MIT Press, 1973.
• Cambridge Historical Commission. Report Two: Mid Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1967.
• Cambridge Historical Commission. Report Three: Cambridgeport. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1971.
• Cambridge Historical Commission. Report Four: Old Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1973.
• Charles River Watershed Association. Charles River Canoe Guide. Auburndale, MA: Charles River Watershed Association, 1977.
• Cronin, John and Robert K. Kennedy, Jr. The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right. New York, NY: Scribner, 1997.
• Dickinson, Harry Ellis. Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981.
• Grehnology Press, 1960.
• Maycock, Susan E. (ed). East Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1988.
• Perry, Ralph Frederick. Canoeing the Charles. Hollis, NH: Hollis Publishing Co, 1996.
• Rogers, Patricia H. and Charles Sullivan. A Photographic History of Cambridge. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1986.
• Warner, Sam Bass, Jr. The Charles from Newton to the Sea: Sketchbook 1995-1998. Auburndale, MA: Charles River Watershed Association, 1998.
• Zaitzevsky, Cynthia. Frederick Law Olmsted and the Boston Park System. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1982.