John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Rhodes, Richard

John James Audubon: The Making of an American (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375713934)

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Format: Paperback
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John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Rhodes, Richard

John James Audubon: The Making of an American

$23.00
John James Audubon: The Making of an American by Rhodes, Richard

John James Audubon: The Making of an American

$23.00
Format: Paperback
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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.

Author: Richard Rhodes
ISBN-10: 037571393X
ISBN-13: 9780375713934
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 04/11/2006
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 7.96h x 5.32w x 1.14d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 06/11/2006 pg. 32
Kliatt 07/01/2006 pg. 33
Library Journal 09/01/2013 pg. 46
By Richard Rhodes
By Richard Rhodes
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Richard Rhodes is the author of twenty books, including novels and works of history, journalism and letters. His The Making of the Atomic Bomb won a Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction, a National Book Award, and a National Book Critics Circle Award. Dark Sun, about the development of the hydrogen bomb, was one of three finalists for a Pulitzer Prize in History. A Kansas native, he has frequently explored American history and biography in articles for national magazines. He lives in Half Moon Bay, California.

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