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A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: Volume 2

A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States: Volume 2

Trent, William P.
Olmsted, Frederick Law, Jr.
Frederick Law, Olmsted

Paperback

Travel Writing19th Century United States HistorySouth

ISBN10: 1108005586
ISBN13: 9781108005586
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 20 2009
Pages: 424
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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