@article{813095,
      recid = {813095},
      author = {Audubon, John James, and Audubon, John James, and Butler,  Tom, and Laufer, Marilyn, and Tyler, Ronnie C., and  Armstrong, James B.,},
      title = {Audubon's last wilderness journey : The viviparous  quadrupeds of North America /},
      pages = {280 pages :},
      note = {"Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art, Auburn University  in association with D Giles Limited, London."},
      abstract = {"John James Audubon's Viviparous Quadrupeds of North  America is the largest and most significant color plate  book produced in the United States in the nineteenth  century, and a fitting monument to the genius of America's  most famous ornithologist, naturalist, and painter.  Measuring an impressive 27 3/4 x 21 1/4 inches, the  Quadrupeds was published in 1845-48 as a three-volume  elephant folio broadsheet edition, the artist's final great  natural history work and the first single publication to  document America's animals. Audubon's Last Wilderness  Journey reproduces all one hundred and fifty original  lithographic prints in color, with a timeline of Audubon's  life and career. Essays by noted experts in art history,  wildlife science, and ecology put this remarkable work in  context, explaining its technical, artistic, and scientific  importance and legacy. They consider the enduring  zoological and ecological significance of the Quadrupeds  folios, including their scientific value to issues such as  classification, and how our relationship towards nature has  changed since the 1840s. The volume additionally includes  transcripts from the journal kept by Edward Harris, cashier  to the 1843 expedition, describing the everyday details of  their journey and the animals they encountered, as well as  a letter, written in 1851, from Audubon's son Victor to  Harris, detailing the circumstances of his father's death.  This entire work is a remarkable record highlighting the  wider importance of the North American wilderness and the  significance and beauty of Audubon's detailed  illustrations. This exceptional new volume will have  serious appeal to the general public and to art historians,  scientists, environmentalists, scholars, researchers, and  academics alike."--Amazon.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/813095},
}