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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States, Volume 2: With Remarks on their Economy

By Frederick Law Olmsted , William P. Trent

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
9781108005586
Google Books ID
SmbtPwAACAAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13655568 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Library Collection - History
Edition
2
Pages
421\421
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was a journalist and landscape designer who is regarded as the founder of American landscape architecture: his most famous achievement was Central Park in New York, of which he became the superintendent in 1857, but he also worked on the design of parks in many other burgeoning American cities, and was called by Charles Eliot Norton 'the greatest artist that America has yet produced'. His A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States was originally published in 1856, and arose from journeys in the south which Olmsted, a passionate abolitionist, had undertaken in 1853-4. This edition was published in two volumes in 1904, with the addition of a biographical sketch by his son and an introduction by William P. Trent. It abounds in fascinating and witty descriptions of Olmsted's encounters and experiences in a society which was on the verge of overwhelming change.

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