The Audubon Reader
- ISBN-10
- 1400043697
- ISBN-13
- 9781400043699
- Category
- Nature / Birdwatching Guides
- Pages
- 631
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Publisher
- Everyman's Library
- Author
- John James Audubon
Description
An anthology of nature writings by the great artist and ornithologist features Audubon's writings about the American wilderness and its plant and animal life, accompanied by excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works that include accounts of
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Audubon Reader: The Best Writings of John James Audubon
By John James AudubonAudubon Reader: The Best Writings of John James Audubon
-
Audubon Reader: The Best Writings of John James Audubon
By John James Audubon, Scott Russell SandersAudubon Reader: The Best Writings of John James Audubon
-
John James Audubon: The Making of an American
By Richard RhodesThe works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself.
-
John James Audubon: The Nature of the American Woodsman
By Gregory NoblesAudubon to Lucy Bakewell Audubon, 1 October 1826, in The 1826 Journal of John James Audubon, edited by Alice Ford (New York, 1987), 238. 3. Three of Audubon's journals have been published in one work: Maria R. Audubon, Audubon and His ...
-
Audubon's Watch: A Novel
By John Gregory BrownIn 1821, John James Audubon, a tutor on a Louisiana plantation, becomes involved in the mysterious death of the plantation's mistress.
-
On the Road with John James Audubon
By Michael Harwood, Mary B. DurantRetraces Audubon's travels through North America in the early 1800s, and the authors' journal
-
This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon
By Nancy PlainBirds 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...
-
John James Audubon: The Making of an American
By John James, Richard RhodesFrom the historian Richard Rhodes, the first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world.
-
Writings and Drawings
By John James Audubon"Here is the most comprehensive selection of Audubon's writings ever published, along with a spectacular portfolio of his drawings. The "Mississippi River Journal," the foremost record of an American artist's...
-
Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America
By William SouderPittsburgh: Cramer, Spear and Eichbaum, 1814 (1966 Readex Microprint reprint). Dallett, Francis James. “Citizen Audubon: A Documentary Discovery,” The Princeton University Library Chronicle, vol. XXI, nos.