From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard Rhodes, this volume is the first biography that fully illuminates the private and family life of the master illustrator John James Audubon. The author describes to the reader a young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803 speaking no English, but already drawing and observing birds. Marrying the wellborn English girl next door, Audubon crossed the Appalachians to frontier Kentucky to start a new life, fashioning himself into an American just as his adopted country was finding its own identity. Audubon explored the wilderness habitats of birds and observed their nature and taught himself to recreate them in life-size images. In 1826, he arrived in England to have hundreds of his watercolor drawings engraved in the seminal multivolume work called The Birds of America. He published this work as well as five volumes on bird biographies enhanced by his authentic descriptions of pioneer American life. Examining Audubon’s legacy of inspired observation, this volume is an indispensable portrait of an American icon.

514 pages, 101 illustrations (16 full-color plates), 6 1/2 in. x 9 1/2 in. Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.

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John James Audubon: The Making of an American
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