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. References External links Presentation by Rybczynski on A Clearing in the Distance, 12 May 1999 Booknotes interview with Rybczynski on A Clearing in the Distance, 17 October 1999. 1999 non-fiction books Books by Witold Rybczynski Architecture books