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- Book Title
- Clearing in the Distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
- Publication Name
- A Clearing in the Distance
- Title
- A Clearing in the Distance
- Subtitle
- Frederich Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- EAN
- 9780684865751
- ISBN
- 9780684865751
- Publisher
- Scribner
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Architecture, History
- Release Date
- 24/07/2000
- Release Year
- 2000
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 8.4in
- Item Weight
- 14.2 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Topic
- Landscape, United States / 19th Century, Artists, Architects, Photographers
- Item Width
- 5.5in
- Number of Pages
- 480 Pages
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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 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 the United States Sanitary Commission, the precursor of the Red Cross. Rybczynski's passion for his subject and his understanding of Olmsted's immense complexity and accomplishments make his book a triumphant work. In A Clearing in the Distance, the story of a great nineteenth-century American becomes an intellectual adventure.
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Publisher
Scribner
ISBN-10
0684865750
ISBN-13
9780684865751
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1633075
Product Key Features
Book Title
Clearing in the Distance : Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Landscape, United States / 19th Century, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Architecture, History
Number of Pages
480 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.4in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
14.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Sb470.O5
Reviews
Stanley Weintraub The Wall Street Journal Mr. Rybczynski meshes what is close to a history of urban landscape architecture in America in the nineteenth century with a life of Olmsted. By doing so, he has produced a biography that communicates, with feeling, the ups and downs of Olmsted's career as well as of the profession he helped to invent....A book that defines and evokes Olmsted as an American original., Stanley WeintraubThe Wall Street JournalMr. Rybczynski meshes what is close to a history of urban landscape architecture in America in the nineteenth century with a life of Olmsted. By doing so, he has produced a biography that communicates, with feeling, the ups and downs of Olmsted's career as well as of the profession he helped to invent....A book that defines and evokes Olmsted as an American original., Suzannah LessardThe New York Times Book ReviewExcellent...thorough and respectful, yet easeful in a way that is reminiscent of Olmsted himself., Suzannah Lessard The New York Times Book Review Excellent...thorough and respectful, yet easeful in a way that is reminiscent of Olmsted himself.
Table of Content
Contents Foreword Schemes 1. "Tough as nails" 2. Frederick goes to school 3. Hartford 4. "I have no objection" 5. New York 6. A year before the mast 7. Friends 8. Farming 9. More farming 10. A walking tour in the old country Jostling and Being Jostled 11. Mr. Downing's magazine 12. Olmsted falls in love and finishes his book 13. Charley Brace intervenes 14. Yeoman 15. A traveling companion 16. The Texas settlers 17. Yeoman makes a decision 18. "Much the best Mag. in the world" 19. Abroad Hitting Heads 20. A change in fortune 21. The Colonel meets his match 22. Mr. Vaux 23. A brilliant solution 24. A promotion 25. Frederick and Mary 26. Comptroller Green 27. King Cotton 28. A good big work 29. Yeoman's war 30. "Six months more pretty certainly" 31. A letter from Dana 32. Never happier 33. Olmsted shortens sail 34. A heavy sort of book 35. Calvert Vaux doesn't take no for an answer 36. Loose ends A Magnificent Opening 37. Olmsted and Vaux plan a perfect park 38. Metropolitan 39. A stopover in Buffalo 40. Thirty-nine thousand trees 41. Best-laid plans 42. Henry Hobson Richardson 43. Olmsted's dilemma 44. Alone 45. "More interesting than nature" 46. Olmsted in demand 47. "I shall be free from it on the 1st of January" Standing First 48. An arduous convalescence 49. Fairstead 50. The character of his business 51. The sixth park 52. Olmsted meets the Governor 53. Olmsted and Vaux, together again 54. "Make a small pleasure ground and gardens" 55. Olmsted drives hard 56. The fourth muse 57. Dear Rick 58. Sunset Olmsted's Distant Effects Distant Effects A Selected List of Olmsted Projects Acknowledgments Notes Index Illustration and Photograph Credits
Copyright Date
2000
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
712/.092 B
Dewey Edition
21
Illustrated
Yes
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