[PDF.25do] John James Audubon: The Making of an American

John James Audubon: The Making of an American

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 | #376928 in Books |  Rhodes, Richard |  2006-04-11 |  2006-04-11 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.01 x1.11 x5.18l,1.10 | File type: PDF | 528 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Rhodes Biography of Audubon|By Abigail Stone|Is it just me or are all the Audubon biographies relentlessly depressing? Either we are hearing about his shooting or he is witnessing some atrocity in the wild. As a birder and appreciator of the natural world,I can hardly read these accounts of slaughter. And when it is not the birds or buffalo dying, it is the sweet Bachman daught|From Publishers Weekly|Born in 1785 in Saint Domingue (now Haiti), the bastard son of a French naval officer and a chambermaid, Audubon was taken to France by his father and then sent to America in 1803 to escape conscription into Napoleon's army. He began drawi

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.

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You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.John James Audubon: The Making of an American   |  Richard Rhodes. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.

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