Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski national parks and pursuits never forsaking his

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Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski national parks and pursuits never forsaking hisIn 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