A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski ISBN 13: 9780684824635

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New York. 1999. June 1999. Scribner. 1st Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0684824639. 480 pages. hardcover. Jacket photograph courtesy of The National Park Service. keywords: History America Biography. FROM THE PUBLISHER - In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of HOME and CITY LIFE, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted's role as a major cultural figure 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, and Boston's Back Bay Fens. But Olmsted's contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily 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 managed California's largest gold mine and, during the Civil War, served as the executive secretary to… Read More

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Scribner Book Company, 1999. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good . 6x1x9. Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) is best remembered today as a landscape designer, well known for his plans for New York's Central Park and Prospect Park, the grounds of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., and the campus of Stanford University, among other noteworthy sites. But, writes urban studies professor and accomplished author Witold Rybczynski, Olmsted was an American original, a 19th-century success story who packed many careers and wide learning and travel into a long life. He spent time in China and Europe, managed a California gold mine, edited The Nation, commanded a medical unit in the Civil War, and crisscrossed the United States many times over, writing long reports and articles all the while. (One series of reports urged, for instance, that the then-remote Yosemite region of California be made a national park.) Olmsted, Rybczynski suggests, changed the face of America: he had a vision of the American… Read More