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Audubon : Life and Art in the American Wilderness by Shirley Streshinsky (2013, Hardcover)

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The compelling story of a legendary artist and an eternal American hero. 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.

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Publisher
Turner Publishing Company
ISBN-10
1630262749
ISBN-13
9781630262747
eBay Product ID (ePID)
204272400

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Book Title
Audubon : Life and Art in the American Wilderness
Author
Shirley Streshinsky
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Environmentalists & Naturalists, American / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Publication Year
2013
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Art
Number of Pages
528 Pages

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Item Length
8.5in
Item Width
5.5in
Item Weight
0 Oz

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""A scintillating biography, a richly detailed story of romance, separation, and struggle." --Publishers Weekly "Streshinsky's riveting new biography . . . infuses this man's career with the same vigorous spark of real life that Audubon uniquely brought to the depiction of America's birds." --Los Angeles Times "Vividly evokes what it was like to settle in new frontier communities, to travel in America and overseas and to try to earn a living in the economically uncertain early years of the nineteenth century." --New York Times Book Review "A solid narrative biography, the first popular life of the artist in a quarter century . . . The Audubon depicted here is buoyant, gifted, and vain." --Boston Globe "A portrait as vivid as any of Audubon's." -- San Francisco Chronicle, ""A scintillating biography, a richly detailed story of romance, separation, and struggle."" --Publishers Weekly ""Streshinsky's riveting new biography . . . infuses this man's career with the same vigorous spark of real life that Audubon uniquely brought to the depiction of America's birds."" --Los Angeles Times ""Vividly evokes what it was like to settle in new frontier communities, to travel in America and overseas and to try to earn a living in the economically uncertain early years of the nineteenth century."" --New York Times Book Review ""A solid narrative biography, the first popular life of the artist in a quarter century . . . The Audubon depicted here is buoyant, gifted, and vain."" --Boston Globe ""A portrait as vivid as any of Audubon's."" -- San Francisco Chronicle, ""A scintillating biography, a richly detailed story of romance, separation, and struggle."" -Publishers Weekly ""Streshinsky's riveting new biography . . . infuses this man's career with the same vigorous spark of real life that Audubon uniquely brought to the depiction of America's birds."" -Los Angeles Times ""Vividly evokes what it was like to settle in new frontier communities, to travel in America and overseas and to try to earn a living in the economically uncertain early years of the nineteenth century."" -New York Times Book Review ""A solid narrative biography, the first popular life of the artist in a quarter century . . . The Audubon depicted here is buoyant, gifted, and vain."" -Boston Globe ""A portrait as vivid as any of Audubon's."" - San Francisco Chronicle
Table of Content
Foreword Acknowledgments BOOK ONE The Woodsman BOOK TWO The Artist and Naturalist Bibliography Notes Index
Dewey Decimal
598.092
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
21

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