A Clearing In The Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted & America In The Nineteenth Century

New York: Scribner, 1999. Hardcover. Aqua and teal boards with silver stamped spine lettering. BW-illustrated dust jacket with black lettering. 480 pp. 16 unnumbered pages of plates. Illustrations. VG/VG- ex-library copy with call number and barcode on dust jacket, light wear and soiling to dust jacket. Item #172485
ISBN: 9780684824635

"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."--Jacket.

OCLC: 40744440

Price: $29.97