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Author: David M. Lank Publisher: ISBN: Category : Birds Languages : en Pages : 200
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In the summer of 1833, John James Audubon, his son and several friends embarked on the schooner Ripley and sailed from Eastport, Maine to Nova Scotia to the St. Lawrence. Audubon kept a detailed diary describing the land, the sea, the vegetation, the people and, above all, the birds that he encountered. Many of the paintings he created along the way are considered his most beautiful and are reproduced here in Audubon's Wilderness Palette. Many of the birds represented here have become extinct or are threatened. With the strokes of his brush, Audubon has in many ways preserved a natural legacy, permitting those who view his paintings and engravings the opportunity to visit a world that has vanished.
Author: David M. Lank Publisher: ISBN: Category : Birds Languages : en Pages : 200
Book Description
In the summer of 1833, John James Audubon, his son and several friends embarked on the schooner Ripley and sailed from Eastport, Maine to Nova Scotia to the St. Lawrence. Audubon kept a detailed diary describing the land, the sea, the vegetation, the people and, above all, the birds that he encountered. Many of the paintings he created along the way are considered his most beautiful and are reproduced here in Audubon's Wilderness Palette. Many of the birds represented here have become extinct or are threatened. With the strokes of his brush, Audubon has in many ways preserved a natural legacy, permitting those who view his paintings and engravings the opportunity to visit a world that has vanished.
Author: Nancy Plain Publisher: U of Nebraska Press ISBN: 0803284039 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 133
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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. Purchase the audio edition.
Author: Shirley Streshinsky Publisher: Turner Publishing Company ISBN: 1620455196 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 529
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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: John James Audubon Publisher: Penguin Putnam ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 272
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In his paintings and his journals, John Audubon preserved for posterity his vivid glimpses of an incredible abundance and variety of wildlife.
Author: John James Audubon Publisher: Random House Value Pub ISBN: 9780517147788 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 192
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Features ninety of Audubon's most stunning bird paintings highlighted by nature prose by such classic authors as Henry David Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry James.
Author: John James Audubon Publisher: Dover Publications ISBN: 9780486257730 Category : Languages : en Pages : 181
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Superb reproductions of Audubon's paintings of common troupial, wild turkey, reddish egret, mallard, cerulean warbler and snowy owl. Prints loose in shrink-wrapped package. Introduction. Notes.
Author: David M. Lank
Author: David M. Lank
Author: Nancy Plain
Author: Shirley Streshinsky
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Author: John James Audubon
Author: John James Audubon
Author: John James Audubon