| Description |
367 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Audubon and Wilson -- 1. Philadelphia -- 2. Coming across -- 3. A name for every living thing -- 4. Lessons -- 5. A beautiful plantation -- 6. The forester -- 7. The exquisite river -- 8. Mr. Wilson's decade -- Pt. II. The birds of America -- 9. At the Red Banks -- 10. Kentucky life -- 11. Legions of the air -- 12. Ever since a boy -- 13. Edinburgh -- 14. Dearest friend -- 15. My great work -- 16. After |
| Summary |
"Before Audubon, ornithological illustrations depicted scaled-down birds perched in static poses. Wheeling beneath storm-wracked skies or ripping flesh from freshly killed prey, Audubon's life-size birds looked as if they might fly screeching off the page. The wildness in the images matched the untamed spirit in Audubon - a self-taught painter and self-anointed aristocrat who, with his buckskins and long hair, wanted to be seen as both a hardened frontiersman and a cultured man of science. But when he went east at thirty-eight - broke and desperate to find a publisher for his birds - he ran squarely into a scientific establishment still wedded to convention and suspicious of the brash newcomer and his grandiose claims. It took Audubon fifteen years to prevail in both his project and his vision. How he triumphed and what drove him are the subject of this narrative."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliography (p. [349]-355) and index |
| Subject |
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
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Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Birds of America
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Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
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Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Birds of America
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Ornithologists -- United States -- Biography
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| LC no. |
2003026141 |
| ISBN |
0865476713 (hc : alk. paper) |
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