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Seeing the World
Author and landscape architecture pioneer Frederick Law Olmsted (1822-1903) was influenced by the pastoral landscape of Connecticut where he was born. Asa young man he learned through reading, apprenticeships, and travel. After work in the mercantile business, including a shipboard trip to China, he became a farmer on Staten Island, and traveling freelance writer, and an editor in New York City. His first publications were based on his tours of England and the southern United States, including observations on horticulture, park design, public health, and the dynamics of agriculture, slavery, and labor in the 1850s. |