| A Clearing in the Distance | |
| Author: | Witold Rybczynski |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Biography |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Publisher: | Scribner |
| Pub Date: | 1999 |
| Pages: | 480 |
| Isbn: | 9780684824635 |
A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and North America in the Nineteenth Century is a biography of 19th-century landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted, published in 1999, by Canadian architect, professor and writer Witold Rybczynski.
It was short-listed for the Charles Taylor Prize in 2000.[1]