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Frederick Law Olmsted

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Nature, Gardens & Animals

Frederick Law Olmsted

Frederick Law Olmsted and Theodora Kimball Hubbard

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Before he designed the great parks, Frederick Law Olmsted was a restless young man teaching himself to see landscape as art. These autobiographical passages trace that education, from the common fields to the first stirrings of a career that reshaped American cities. Candid and reflective, they reveal the mind behind Central Park. Meet the landscape architect before he was famous.

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40 chapters

  1. 1FORTY YEARS OF LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5LIST OF PAPERS AND DOCUMENTS
  6. 6PART I BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 1822-1903
  7. 7FOOTNOTES:
  8. 8PART II. EARLY EXPERIENCES THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO HIS LATER CAREER
  9. 9CHAPTER I AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL PASSAGES
  10. 10Passages in the Life of an Unpractical Man
  11. 11FOOTNOTES:
  12. 12HINTS AIDFUL TO ELEMENTARY SELF-EDUCATION IN DESIGN IN THE COMMON FIELDS OF LANDSCAPE GARDENING PROPER.
  13. 13FOOTNOTES:
  14. 14CHAPTER II EARLY PLEASURE TOURS
  15. 15FOOTNOTES:
  16. 16CHAPTER III STUDY AND READING
  17. 17CHAPTER IV FARMING
  18. 18FOOTNOTES:

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