000286678 000__ 03851cam\a22003974a\45\0 000286678 001__ 286678 000286678 005__ 20210513105408.0 000286678 008__ 031230s2004\\\\nyua\\\\\b\\\\001\0beng\\ 000286678 010__ $$a 2003069489 000286678 019__ $$a56764429$$a57145217$$a57513002 000286678 020__ $$a0375414126 (alk. paper) 000286678 02431 $$a9780375414121 000286678 035__ $$a(OCoLC)ocm54029227 000286678 040__ $$aDLC$$cDLC$$dYDX$$dYBM$$dXY4$$dOCL$$dOCLCQ$$dBAKER 000286678 042__ $$apcc 000286678 043__ $$an-us--- 000286678 049__ $$aISEA 000286678 05000 $$aQL31.A9$$bR524 2004 000286678 08200 $$a598/.092$$aB$$222 000286678 1001_ $$aRhodes, Richard,$$d1937- 000286678 24510 $$aJohn James Audubon :$$bthe making of an American /$$cRichard Rhodes. 000286678 24630 $$aAudubon 000286678 250__ $$a1st ed. 000286678 260__ $$aNew York :$$bAlfred A. Knopf,$$c2004. 000286678 300__ $$ax, 514 p. :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm. 000286678 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [481]-489). 000286678 5050_ $$aThe making of an American -- America my country -- The birds of America. 000286678 520__ $$aFrom 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 his authentic descriptions of pioneer American life. Audubon's story is an artist's story but also a moving love story. In his day, communications by letter across the ocean were so slow and uncertain that John James and his wife, Lucy, almost lost each other in the three years when the Atlantic separated them-until he crossed the Atlantic and half the American continent to claim her. Their letters during this time are intimate, moving, and painful, and they attest to an enduring love. We examine 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. And we see Audubon in the fullness of his years, made rich by his magnificent work, winning public honor: embraced by writers and scientists, feted by presidents and royalty. Here is a revelation of Audubon as the major American artist he is. And here he emerges for the first time in his full humanity-handsome, charming, volatile, ambitious, loving, canny, immensely energetic. Richard Rhodes has given us an indispensable portrait of a true American icon. 000286678 60010 $$aAudubon, John James,$$d1785-1851. 000286678 650_0 $$aOrnithologists$$zUnited States$$vBiography. 000286678 650_0 $$aAnimal painters$$zUnited States$$vBiography. 000286678 85200 $$bgen$$hQL31.A9$$iR524$$i2004 000286678 85642 $$3Contributor biographical information$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random051/2003069489.html 000286678 85641 $$3Sample text$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random051/2003069489.html 000286678 85642 $$3Publisher description$$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random051/2003069489.html 000286678 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:286678$$pGLOBAL_SET 000286678 938__ $$aBaker & Taylor$$bBKTY$$c30.00$$d22.50$$i0375414126$$n0004414784$$sactive 000286678 980__ $$aBIB 000286678 980__ $$aBOOK 000286678 994__ $$aC0$$bISE