A clearing in the distance

Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century

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Witold Rybczynski
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A clearing in the distance

Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the nineteenth century

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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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Scribner
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English
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480

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A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
July 5, 2000, Scribner
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A clearing in the distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th century
2000, Simon & Schuster
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A clearing in the distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the nineteenth century
1999, HarperPerennial Canada
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-460) and index.

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Biography

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480 p., [16] p. of plates :
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OL23243316M
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