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John James Audubon : the making of an American by Audubon, John James; Audubon, John James; Audubon, John James; Rhodes, Richard is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Richard 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. Rhodes shows us young Audubon arriving in New York from France in 1803, his illegitimacy a painful secret, speaking no English but already drawing and observing birds. We see him falling in love, marrying the wellborn English girl next door, crossing the Appalachians to frontier Kentucky to start a new life, fashioning himself into an American just as his adopted country was finding its identity. Here is Audubon exploring the wilderness of birds-pelicans wading the shallows of interior rivers, songbirds flocking, passenger pigeons darkening the skies-and teaching himself to revivify them in glorious life-size images. Now he 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. Within weeks of his arrival there in 1826, he achieves remarkable celebrity as "the American Woodsman." He publishes his major work as well as five volumes of bird biographies enhanced by h

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Author

Audubon, John James; Audubon, John James; Audubon, John James; Rhodes, Richard

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400043774

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Memoir, Fiction

Rating

4.15 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14