[audiobook] Leonora Carrington; la gran rebelde (Spanish Edition) by EL PAIacute;S at Arts-Photography

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In a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject; Witold Rybczynski; the bestselling author of Home and City Life; illuminates Frederick Law Olmsteds role as a major cultural figure at the epicenter of nineteenth-century American history.We know Olmsted through the physical legacy of his stunning landscapes -- among them; New Yorks Central Park; Californias Stanford University campus; and Bostons Back Bay Fens. But Olmsteds contemporaries knew a man of even more extraordinarily diverse talents. Born in 1822; he traveled to China on a merchant ship at the age of twenty-one. He cofounded The Nation magazine and was an early voice against slavery. He managed Californias largest gold mine and; during the Civil War; served as the executive secretary to the United States Sanitary Commission; the precursor of the Red Cross. Rybczynskis passion for his subject and his understanding of Olmsteds immense complexity and accomplishments make his book a triumphant work. In A Clearing in the Distance; the story of a great nineteenth-century American becomes an intellectual adventure.