Author: Mrs. Horace St. JohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ornithologists
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Life of Audubon
Author: Mrs. Horace St. JohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ornithologists
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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The Boy Who Drew Birds
Author: Jacqueline DaviesPublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0547349556
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 37
Book Description
This fascinating picture book biography from beloved author of the Lemonade War series Jacqueline Davies and Caldecott honor–winning illustrator Melissa Sweet chronicles the life of scientist John James Audubon, who pioneered a technique essential to our understanding of birds thanks to his lifelong love for the species. If there was one thing James loved to do more than anything else, it was to be in the great outdoors watching his beloved feathered friends. In the fall of 1804, he was determined to find out if the birds nesting near his Pennsylvania home would really return the following spring. Through careful observation, James laid the foundation for all that we know about migration patterns today. Capturing the early passion of this bird-obsessed young man as well as the meticulous study and scientific methods behind his research, this lively, gorgeously illustrated biography will leave young readers listening intently for the call of birds large and small near their own home.
Boy's Life of Audubon
Author: Mrs. Horace Stebbing Roscoe St. JohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Boy's Life of Audubon
Author: Mrs. Horace St. JohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 311
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John James Audubon
Author: Richard RhodesPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 1400043778
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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.
This Strange Wilderness
Author: Nancy PlainPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803284012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 143
Book Description
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.
John Audubon, Young Naturalist
Author: Miriam E. MasonPublisher: Young Patriots Series
ISBN: 1882859510
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 122
Book Description
As an adult, John Audubon was the best known wildlife artist of the 19th century, and his book, Birds of America, is the standard against which all subsequent bird art has been measured. In this story about the artist's childhood in the West Indies and France, John's love of drawing sends him into the fields and woods near his country house in pursuit of winged models. Games and adventures also beckon: John confronts a ghost in the old water mill tower, presents his friend Cecile with a surprise birthday gift (that goes horribly wrong!), and sails off to seek his fortune in America. Special features include a summary of John's adult accomplishments, fun facts detailing little-known information about him, and a time line of his life.
Boys' Life of Audubon, the Naturalist of the New World
Author: Mrs. Horace St. JohnPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Audubon
Author: Jennifer ArmstrongPublisher: Harry N. Abrams
ISBN: 9780810942387
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Briefly tells the story of this nineteenth-century painter and naturalist who is most famous for his detailed paintings of birds.
The Birds of America
Author: John James AudubonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Birds
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
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).