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A Clearing in the Distance
AuthorWitold Rybczynski
LanguageEnglish
SubjectBiography
GenreNon-fiction
PublisherScribner
Publication date
1999
Pages480
ISBN9780684824635

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.

It was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000.[1]

  1. ^ Posner, Michael. "A winning bard of the Rock". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 19 May 2022.

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