John James Audubon: The Making of an American

John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the remotest regions of his new country-often alone and on foot-to render his avian subjects on paper. The works of art he created gave the world its idea of America. They gave America its idea of itself.

Here Richard Rhodes vividly depicts Audubon's life and career: his epic wanderings; his quest to portray birds in a lifelike way; his long, anguished separations from his adored wife; his ambivalent witness to the vanishing of the wilderness. John James Audubon: The Making of an American is a magnificent achievement.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 04/11/2006
ISBN: 9780375713934
Pages: 544
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.32w x 1.14d

Review Citations: New York Times 06/11/2006 pg. 32
Kliatt 07/01/2006 pg. 33
Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 46