Author: John James Audubon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 350

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Author: John James Audubon
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Charles T. Butler
Publisher: Giles
ISBN: 9781911282105
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A new presentation of J.J Audubon's final great natural history work, the first volume to document America's animals.

Author: John James Audubon
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496226747
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 425

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Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case for considering John James Audubon’s and John Bachman’s quadruped essays as worthy of literary analysis and redefine the role of Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays. After completing The Birds of America (1826–38), Audubon began developing his work on the mammals. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America volumes show an antebellum view of nature as fundamentally dynamic and simultaneously grotesque and awe-inspiring. The quadruped essays are rich with good stories about these mammals and the humans who observe, pursue, and admire them. For help with the science and the essays, Audubon enlisted the Reverend John Bachman of Charleston, South Carolina. While he has been acknowledged as coauthor of the essays, Bachman has received little attention as an American nature writer. While almost all works that describe the history of American nature writing include Audubon, Bachman shows up only in a subordinate clause or two. Tenacious of Life strives to restore Bachman’s status as an important American nature writer. Patterson and Russell analyze the coauthorial dance between the voices of Audubon, an experienced naturalist telling adventurous hunting stories tinged often by sentiment, romanticism, and bombast, and of Bachman, the courteous gentleman naturalist, scientific detective, moralist, sometimes cruel experimenter, and humorist. Drawing on all the primary and secondary evidence, Patterson and Russell tell the story of the coauthors’ fascinating, conflicted relationship. This collection offers windows onto the early United States and much forgotten lore, often in the form of travel writing, natural history, and unique anecdotes, all told in the compelling voices of Antebellum America’s two leading naturalists.

Author: John James Audubon
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780565094843
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160

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Author: Karl Kusserow
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300237009
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This multidisciplinary book offers the first broad ecocritical review of American art and examines the environmental contexts of artistic practice from the colonial period to the present day. Tracing how visions of the environment have changed from the Native-European encounter to the emergence of modern ecological activism, more than a dozen scholars and practitioners discuss how artists have both responded to and actively instigated changes in ecological understanding.

Author: William Henry Edwards
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Butterflies
Languages : en
Pages : 64

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Author: John James Audubon
Publisher: Edinburgh : A. and C. Black ; London : Longman, Rees, Brown, Green, and Longman
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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"The figures and descriptions contained in the works entitled 'The birds of America, ' and 'Ornithological biography ... ' having been issued in the miscellaneous manner which was thought best adapted to the occasion ... seemed to require a systematic index, in which the nomenclature should be correct, and the species arranged agreeably to my present views. This synopsis, then, will afford a methodical catalogue of all the species ... described ... in the above named." -- Pref.

Author: Wellfleet Press
Publisher: Wellfleet Press
ISBN: 9780785820253
Category : Mammals
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Featuring both the entire text and the complete series of paintings of John James Audubon's Quadrupeds, 155 full-color art plates in all, this massive volume is a fitting tribute to the great naturalist's last major work.

Author: John James Audubon
Publisher: White Lion Publishing
ISBN: 9780565093396
Category : Artists
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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'Birds of America' is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also one of the most valuable - a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for 7.3 million, which is a world record.