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JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, The Making of an American.
ITEM #: B-13068
RETAIL: $29.95
PRICE: $16.48
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| JOHN JAMES AUDUBON, The Making of an American. Rhodes. The first major biography of John James Audubon in forty years, and the first to illuminate fully the private and family life of the master illustrator of the natural world. The author portrays Audubon exploring the wilderness of birds–pelicans wading in the shallows of interior rivers, songbirds flocking, passenger pigeons darkening the skies–and teaching himself to revivify them in glorious life-size images. Audubon later finds his calling: to take his hundreds of watercolor drawings to England to be engraved in a great multivolume work called The Birds of America. Rhodes examines Audubon’s legacy of inspired observation–the sonorities of a wilderness now lost, the brash life of a new nation just inventing itself–precisely, truthfully, lyrically captured. In these pages we see Audubon in the fullness of his years, made rich by his magnificent work, winning public honor: embraced by writers and scientists, fêted by presidents and royalty. Here he emerges for the first time in his full humanity–handsome, charming, volatile, ambitious, loving, canny, immensely energetic. An indispensable portrait of an American icon. #B-13068, hardcover.
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