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. Suzannah Lessard reviewed it for The New York Times.
It was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000.
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External links
- Presentation by Rybczynski on A Clearing in the Distance, 12 May 1999
- Booknotes interview with Rybczynski on A Clearing in the Distance, 17 October 1999.
- Text of the first chapter
- Preview at Internet Archive