Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World British artists including J

British artists including J

Its fantastical illustrations are the beginnings of magical new adventures

Rondout had become a densely settled community of buildings—dwellings

See the waterfall that was home to the once world-famous Burden Waterwheel—which served as inspiration for the Ferris Wheel—and the fall made famous in James Fenimore Cooper’s classic

In this landmark work of environmental history

Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World British artists including JFrom the author of American Edenfinalist for the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and morecomes a sweeping, richly researched biography of Frederic Church, the great 19th century American artist whose stunning paintings of remote lands and seas thrilled American audiences and put the young republic on the map of world culturepublished on Churchs bicentennial. They came to see the world. New York, spring 1859. Outside Frederic Churchs Tenth