On the Road with John James Audubon
Title | On the Road with John James Audubon PDF eBook |
Author | Mary B. Durant |
Publisher | New York : Dodd, Mead |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
John James Audubon
Title | John James Audubon PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Rhodes |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2004-10-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1400043778 |
John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country–often alone and on foot–to render his avian subjects on paper. The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself. Here Richard Rhodes vividly depicts Audubon’s life and career: his epic wanderings; his quest to portray birds in a lifelike way; his long, anguished separations from his adored wife; his ambivalent witness to the vanishing of the wilderness. John James Audubon: The Making of an American is a magnificent achievement.
The Birds of America
Title | The Birds of America PDF eBook |
Author | John James Audubon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 476 |
Release | 1842 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN |
This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).
On the Road with John James Audubon
Title | On the Road with John James Audubon PDF eBook |
Author | Mary B. Durant |
Publisher | New York : Dodd, Mead |
Pages | 664 |
Release | 1980 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
On the Road with John James Audubon
Title | On the Road with John James Audubon PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Durant |
Publisher | |
Pages | 639 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Birds |
ISBN | 9780396083535 |
Treasury of Audubon Birds
Title | Treasury of Audubon Birds PDF eBook |
Author | John James Audubon |
Publisher | Courier Dover Publications |
Pages | 147 |
Release | 2020-04-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0486841790 |
Featuring the snowy egret, wild turkey, brown pelican, screech owl, and many others, this new collection gathers 130 select plates from Audubon's octavo edition. Includes an informative introduction to the artist and his work.
This Strange Wilderness
Title | This Strange Wilderness PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Plain |
Publisher | U of Nebraska Press |
Pages | 143 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0803284012 |
Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world's greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image--lifelike and life size--rendered in vibrant color. Audubon was also an explorer, a woodsman, a hunter, an entertaining and prolific writer, and an energetic self-promoter. Through talent and dogged determination, he rose from backwoods obscurity to international fame. In This Strange Wilderness, award-winning author Nancy Plain brings together the amazing story of this American icon's career and the beautiful images that are his legacy. Before Audubon, no one had seen, drawn, or written so much about the animals of this largely uncharted young country. Aware that the wilderness and its wildlife were changing even as he watched, Audubon remained committed almost to the end of his life "to search out the things which have been hidden since the creation of this wondrous world." This Strange Wilderness details his art and writing, transporting the reader back to the frontiers of early nineteenth-century America.