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In a collaboration between writer and subject, the author of Home and City life illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure and a man at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history. We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes - among them, New York's Central Park, California's Stanford University campus, Boston's Back Bay Fens, Illinois's Riverside community, Asheville's Biltmore Estate, and Louisville's park system.
Olmsted's contemporaries knew a man of even more diverse talents. Born in 1822, he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He wrote books about the South and about his exploration of the Texas frontier. He managed California's largest gold mine and, during the Civil War, served as general secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission, the precursor of the Red Cross.
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Landscape architecture, Civilization, Biography, Landscape architects, History, United States, Olmsted, Frederick Law, 1822-1903, 19th century, Landschapsarchitectuur, Architecten, Parken, Olmsted, Frederick Law, -- 1822-1903, United states, history, 19th century, Architects, biography, United states, civilization, BiographiePlaces
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-460) and index.
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