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A highly varied collection including letters, travel sketches, newspaper articles, essays, editorials, design proposals, official reports, and autobiographical reminiscences. Subjects include life in China where he was briefly an apprentice seaman, Olmsted's observations on the situation of the...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, N.Y. :
Library Of America,
[2015]
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| Series: | Library of America ;
270. |
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| Summary: | A highly varied collection including letters, travel sketches, newspaper articles, essays, editorials, design proposals, official reports, and autobiographical reminiscences. Subjects include life in China where he was briefly an apprentice seaman, Olmsted's observations on the situation of the South before the Civil War, his war service organizing relief supplies, and his advocacy for the preservation of public lands at Yosemite, Yellowstone, and Niagara Falls. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 802 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 21 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1598534521 (hardback) 9781598534528 (hardback) |