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A Clearing in the Distance

Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century

A Clearing in the Distance( )
Author: Rybczynski, Witold
ISBN:978-0-684-86575-1
Publication Date:Jul 2000
Publisher:Scribner
Imprint:Scribner
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $19.99
Book Description:

In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, 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...
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Book Details
Pages:480
Detailed Subjects: Architecture / Landscape
History / United States / 19Th Century
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.438 x 1.2 Inches
Book Weight:0.885 Pounds



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