Genius of place the life of Frederick Law Olmsted
Describes the life of the landscape architect responsible for New York's Central Park and Boston's Emerald Necklace including his lesser-known time spent as an influential journalist, early voice for the environment and abolitionist, all overshadowed by a tragic personal life.
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Cambridge, MA :
Da Capo Press,
c2011.
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Table of Contents:
- "An enthusiast by nature" : growing up, 1822-1851
- "The cause of future freedom' : Southern travels and journalism, 1852-1857
- "A people's pleasure-ground" : conceiving Central Park, 1857-1861
- "Heroes along with the rest" : Civil War service, 1861-1863
- "There seems to be no limit" : California, 1863-1865
- "Where talents and the needs of the world cross" : shaping the nation, 1865-1877
- "I have all my life been considering distant effects" : summits and sorrows, 1877-1903.
