The Audubon Reader
$52.64
- Hardcover
680 pages
- Release Date
15 April 2006
Summary
The Audubon Reader is an unprecedented anthology of Audubon’s lively and colourful writings, edited by his award-winning biographer. Richard Rhodes gathers excerpts from Audubon’s journals, letters, and published works, introducing him not only as a great artist and ornithologist but also as an exceptional American writer, a forerunner of Thoreau, Emerson, and Melville.
John James Audubon (1785-1851) was for half a century America’s dominant wildlife artist. His seminal Birds of Ameri…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857152845 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857152840 |
| Author: | John James Audubon |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 680 |
| Release Date: | 15 April 2006 |
| Weight: | 714g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm x 35mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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Celebrate him for his wonderful birds; but recognise him as well as a characteristic American of the first generation - a man who literally made a name for himself.
Celebrate him for his wonderful birds; but recognise him as well as a characteristic American of the first generation - a man who literally made a name for himself. – Richard Rhodes * Introduction by Richard Rhodes *
About The Author
John James Audubon
Richard Rhodes is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb and John James Audubon: The Making of an American.
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