TY  - BOOK
AU  - Plain,Nancy
TI  - This strange wilderness: the life and art of John James Audubon 
SN  - 9780803248847
AV  - QL31.A9 P65 2015
U1  - 508.092B 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Lincoln
PB  - University of Nebraska Press
KW  - Audubon, John James,
KW  - Audubon, John James
KW  - Birds of America (Audubon, John James)
KW  - fast
KW  - Discoveries in geography
KW  - Birds in art
KW  - Ornithologists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Juvenile literature
KW  - Naturalists
KW  - JUVENILE NONFICTION
KW  - Biography & Autobiography
KW  - Art
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - sears
KW  - United States, West
KW  - West (U.S.)
KW  - Discovery and exploration
KW  - Juvenile works
KW  - Illustrated works
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 105) and index; Introduction: Drawn from nature -- Beloved boy -- America, my country -- The American woodsman -- Down the Mississippi -- On the wing -- The birds of America -- Team Audubon -- This strange wilderness -- Audubon then and now -- Appendix: Looking for Audubon and his world; THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN ORDERED BUT IS NOT YET AVAILABLE; Ages 9 and up
N2  - Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world's greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America, depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each life-size image rendered in vibrant color. Audubon was also an explorer, a woodsman, a hunter, an entertaining and prolific writer, and an energetic self-promoter. Through talent and dogged determination, he rose from backwoods obscurity to international fame. Nancy Plain brings together the amazing story of this American icon's career and the beautiful images that are his legacy. Before Audubon, no one had seen, drawn, or written so much about the animals of this largely uncharted young country. Aware that the wilderness and its wildlife were changing even as he watched, Audubon remained committed almost to the end of his life "to search out the things which have been hidden since the creation of this wondrous world." This Strange Wilderness details his art and writing, transporting the reader back to the frontiers of early nineteenth-century America
ER  -