John James Audubon Leslie A. Morris Richard Rhodes
In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon was a twenty-year-old itinerant Frenchman of ignoble birth and indifferent education who had fled revolutionary violence in Haiti and then France to take refuge in frontier America. Ten years later, John James Audubon was an American citizen, entrepreneur, and family man whose fervent desire to become acquainted with nature had led him to reinvent himself as a naturalist and artist whose study of birds would soon earn him international acclaim. The drawings he made during this crucial decade sold to Audubon s friend and patron Edward Harris to help fund his...
In 1805, Jean Jacques Audubon was a twenty-year-old itinerant Frenchman of ignoble birth and indifferent education who had fled revolutionary viol...
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the different birds of America. Chiefly the result of the author s extensive experience in the field, "The Birds of America from Drawings Made in the United States and their Territories" includes a wealth of interesting and practical information that would prove invaluable to the modern enthusiast with an interest in American birds. The chapters of this volume include: Turkey Culture, Polyborus, Vieill. Caracara, Buteo, Bechst . Buzzard, Aquila, Briss. Eagle, Haliaetus, Savigny. Sea-Eagle, Pandion, Sav. Osprey, Elanus, Sab., Nauclerus, Vig....
This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to the different birds of America. Chiefly the result of the author s extensive experience in the fie...
John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest works of natural history and art of the nineteenth century, The Birds of America. As the record of the interior story of the making of this monumental work, his journal of 1826 is one of the richest documents in the history of American culture. The first accurate transcription of Audubon's 1826 journal, this edition corrects many of the errors, both intentional and unintentional, found in previous editions. Such errors have obscured the figure of Audubon as a man struggling to realize his...
John James Audubon, an early American naturalist and painter, produced one of the greatest works of natural history and art of the nineteenth century,...
