Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World That's because Fido is a

That's because Fido is a tree

Rondout had become a densely settled community of buildings—dwellings

until he comes across a friendly bunch of evergreens

matters so profoundly in the history of American art and public parks

In this landmark work of environmental history

Glorious Country: How the Artist Frederic Church Brought the World to America and America to the World That's because Fido is aFrom 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