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| The Audubon Reader (Everyman's Library) | 
| Author: John James Audubon
Creator: Richard Rhodes
Publisher: Everyman's Library
Category: Book
List Price: $27.50
Buy New: $15.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 245027
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 656
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 1400043697
Dewey Decimal Number: 598.092
EAN: 9781400043699
ASIN: 1400043697
Publication Date: April 11, 2006
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Product Description
(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)
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.
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A wonderful keepsake reader's edition of a classic collection of wildlife observations June 26, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Richard Rhodes is the author of more than twenty works of history and fiction, winning many awards: his biography of John James Audubon appeared in 2004 and this companion reader is a wonderful survey of Audubon's own colorful writings about the American wilderness. Rhodes edits and gathers the best of Audubon's own voice, providing an anthology spiced with full-color reproductions of sixteen of his watercolors. The result is a wonderful keepsake reader's edition of a classic collection of wildlife observations.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Early 1800s Description! May 19, 2006
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having just read the first chapters, I can say that the writings of Audubon are perfect for a 5th Generation, or so, American to read. I'm interested in my Genealogy, and Audubon, because of his walking trips, clearly tells me what life and the natural world were like then. The book had a special glow, when I lifted it off of the library shelf. Audubon, with all of his talent and intelligence, also needed to make a living with respect to what the federal government was doing at the time which made it harder; i.e. Louisiana Purchase pay-off of debt to Spain. My ancestors came between 1800 and 1850 to Ohio.
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