The Audubon Reader The Audubon Reader

The Audubon Reader

Edited and Introduced by Richard Rhodes

    • $14.99
    • $14.99

Publisher Description

This unprecedented anthology of John James Audubon’s lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness reintroduces the great artist and ornithologist as an exceptional American writer, a predecessor to Thoreau, Emerson, and Melville.

Audubon’s award-winning biographer, Richard Rhodes, has gathered excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works, and has organized them to appeal to general readers. Rhodes’s unobtrusive commentary frames a wide range of selections, including Audubon’s vivid “bird biographies,” correspondence with his devoted wife, Lucy, journal accounts of dramatic river journeys and hunting trips with the Shawnee and Osage Indians, and a generous sampling of brief narrative episodes that have long been out of print—engaging stories of pioneer life such as "The Great Pine Swamp," “The Earthquake,” and “Kentucky Barbecue on the Fourth of July.” Full-color reproductions of sixteen of Audubon’s stunning watercolor illustrations accompany the text.

The Audubon Reader
allows us to experience Audubon’s distinctive voice directly and provides a window into his electrifying encounter with early America: with its wildlife and birds, its people, and its primordial wilderness.

GENRE
Science & Nature
RELEASED
2006
April 11
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
656
Pages
PUBLISHER
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
SELLER
Penguin Random House LLC
SIZE
27.7
MB
Extracts from the letters and journals of George Fletcher Moore Extracts from the letters and journals of George Fletcher Moore
2015
John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend John Muir: The Story of My Boyhood and Youth & Letters to a Friend
2015
John Muir: Memoirs John Muir: Memoirs
2019
The Story of My Boyhood & Youth The Story of My Boyhood & Youth
2018
Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia Diary of ten years eventful life of an early settler in Western Australia
2015
HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated) HENRY DAVID THOREAU – The Man, The Philosopher & The Trailblazer (Illustrated)
2017
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5 Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5
2012
Children's Book of American Biographies Children's Book of American Biographies
2014
Audubon's Birds Audubon's Birds
2023
The Birds of America: Vol. 1 The Birds of America: Vol. 1
2013
The Birds of America: Vol. 3 The Birds of America: Vol. 3
2013
The Birds of America: Vol. 4 The Birds of America: Vol. 4
2013