This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon
By Nancy Plain.
Description
2016 Spur Award winner for Best Western Juvenile Nonfiction from Western Writers of AmericaYALSA Excellence in Nonfiction FinalistNational Outdoor Book AwardBooklist Editors' Choice BookBirds 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 image lifelike and life size rendered in vibrant color. Audubon was also an explorer, a woodsman, a hunter, an entertaining and prol...
ISBN(s)
0803248849, 9780803248847
