A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States
by Frederick Law Olmsted
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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 show more 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. show lessTags
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- 917.5043 — History & geography Geography & travel Geography of and travel in North America Southeastern U.S. Travel
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- F213 .O49 — Local History of the United States, Canada and Latin America United States local history The South. South Atlantic States
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