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Author:

Plain, Nancy, author.

Title:

This strange wilderness : the life and art of John James Audubon / Nancy Plain.

Publisher:

University of Nebraska Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xviii, 112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Audubon, John James,--1785-1851.
Audubon, John James,--1785-1851.--Birds of America.
Ornithologists--United States--Biography.
Naturalists--United States--Biography.
Wildlife artists--United States--Biography.
Birds--North America--Pictorial works.
Birds in art.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-105) and index.

Contents:

Introduction : drawn from nature -- Beloved boy -- America, my country -- The American woodsman -- Down the Mississippi -- On the wing -- The birds of America -- Team Audubon -- This strange wilderness -- Audubon then and now -- Appendix : looking for Audubon and his world.

Summary:

Describes how the writer and naturalist set about recording in both word and image the birds of North America, and details the legacy his work has left behind.

ISBN:

0803248849
9780803248847

LCCN:

2014020552

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