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The Birds That Audubon Missed Discovery And Desire In The American Wilderness Kenn Kaufman

Name: The Birds That Audubon Missed Discovery And Desire In The American Wilderness Kenn Kaufman
SKU: BELL-57056046
Price: 31.00 USD
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The Birds That Audubon Missed Discovery And Desire In The American Wilderness Kenn Kaufman instant download after payment.

Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 59.34 MB

Pages: 400

Author: Kenn Kaufman

ISBN: 9781668007594, 1668007592

Language: English

Year: 2024

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The Birds That Audubon Missed Discovery And Desire In The American Wilderness Kenn Kaufman by Kenn Kaufman 9781668007594, 1668007592 instant download after payment.

Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufmanexamines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world.
Raging ambition. Towering egos. Competition under a veneer of courtesy. Heroic effort combined with plagiarism, theft, exaggeration, and fraud. This was the state of bird study in eastern North America during the early 1800s, as a handful of intrepid men raced to find the last few birds that were still unknown to science.
The most famous name in the bird world was John James Audubon, who painted spectacular portraits of birds. But although his images were beautiful, creating great art was not his main goal. Instead, he aimed to illustrate (and write about) as many different species as possible, obsessed with trying to outdo his rival, Alexander Wilson. George Ord, a fan and protégé of Wilson, held a...