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Across the Open Field : Essays Drawn from English Landscapes /

"Twenty-eight years ago I went to England for a three-month visit and rest. What I found changed my life."So begins this memoir by one of America's best-known landscape architects, Laurie Olin. Raised in a frontier town in Alaska, trained in Seattle and New York, Olin found himself di...

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Autor principal: Olin, Laurie
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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