Isabella Stewart Gardner was scandalous: a woman who rode in ox carts, an ardent Red Sox fan, and a world traveler. Within her museum are housed the most intimate fruits of her voyages: her travel scrapbooks.
Look for five of her Asia scrapbooks in the 2009 exhibition called “From Tourist to Collector: Isabella Stewart Gardner and the Orient.”
(Jonathan Wiggs / Globe Staff; Caption: Nicole Duarte, Boston.com Staff)
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About the bookBoston's Secret Spaces offers tantalizing peeks into places ordinary mortals rarely see. Published in partnership with The Boston Globe and based on the exceedingly popular Boston.com feature (3.7 million page views and counting), the book takes readers behind the scenes at several sports hot spots, historical landmarks, and offbeat Beantown locales.
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