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A new presentation of J.J Audubon's final great natural history work, the first volume to document America's animals.
Author : Charles T. Butler
Publisher : Giles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781911282105
A new presentation of J.J Audubon's final great natural history work, the first volume to document America's animals.
Author : Nancy Plain
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 10,68 MB
Release : 2015
Category : 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.
Author : Shirley Streshinsky
Publisher : Turner
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,71 MB
Release : 2013-09-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781630262747
The compelling story of a legendary artist and an eternal American hero. In 1803, an eighteen-year-old West Indies-born Frenchman arrived in New York City, fleeing Napoleon's conscription. His work would become inextricably entwined with the new world he so proudly adopted in his motto "America, my country." Inspired by the primeval forests and the vast flocks of birds that thrived in them, Audubon spent the next several decades of his life painstakingly documenting the birds of the American wilderness. He traveled the back roads and bayous, searching out and studying the birds that were his pastime and passion. He spent long, silent hours observing them in the wild. He was no amateur ornithologist; rather, he drew his birds from life, and his work always carried the line "drawn from nature by J. J. Audubon." Accompanied by his wife, Lucy, and their two sons, Audubon was able to challenge the world's expectations and win. The story of this loving family's long, profound struggle is as poignant and as relevant today as it was in the early decades of the nineteenth century. Combining meticulous scholarship with the dramatic life story of a naturalist and pioneer, Audubon reexamines the artist's journals and letters to tell the story of Audubon's quest, the origins of the American spirit, and the sacrifice that resulted in one of the world's greatest bodies of art: The Birds of America.
Author : Sarah Boehme
Publisher : Abradale Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 11,25 MB
Release : 2000-09
Category : Art
ISBN :
This splendid volume is the most creative study ever made of Audubon's mammal paintings.
Author : John James Audubon
Publisher :
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,74 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Richard Rhodes
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,41 MB
Release : 2004-10-05
Category : 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.
Author : Paul Schullery
Publisher : Montana Historical Society
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 43,25 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9780972152211
Schullery's book details the ecological history of Yellowstone National Park.
Author : Mary B. Durant
Publisher : New York : Dodd, Mead
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 15,31 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Author : National Audubon Society
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 29,25 MB
Release : 1998-05-26
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0679446788
The most comprehensive field guide available to the flora and fauna of California--a portable, essential companion for visitors and residents alike--from the go-to reference source for over 18 million nature lovers. This compact volume contains: An easy-to-use field guide for identifying 1,000 of the state's wildflowers, trees, mushrooms, mosses, fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, butterflies, mammals, and much more; A complete overview of California's natural history, covering geology, wildlife habitats, ecology, fossils, rocks and minerals, clouds and weather patterns and night sky; An extensive sampling of the area's best parks, preserves, beaches, forests, islands, and wildlife sanctuaries, with detailed descriptions and visitor information for 50 sites and notes on dozens of others. The guide is packed with visual information -- the 1,500 full-color images include more than 1,300 photographs, 14 maps, and 16 night-sky charts, as well as 150 drawings explaining everything from geological processes to the basic features of different plants and animals.
Author : Alan Rabinowitz
Publisher :
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 31,15 MB
Release : 2001-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The author describes his journey through the uncharted lands of northern Myanmar, describing new species and trying to persuade the government to preserve the land.