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| Author | Witold Rybczynski |
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| Language | English |
| Subject | Biography |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Scribner |
Publication date | 1999 |
| Pages | 480 |
| ISBN | 9780684824635 |
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century is a biography of 19th-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, published in 1999, by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski. Andrew Delbanco reviewed it for The New York Review of Books. [1] Suzannah Lessard reviewed it for The New York Times. [2]
It was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000. [3]
