num_pages: 514
description: 2004 Alfred A. Knopf jumbo trade paperback, Richard Rhodes (Scientist: E. O. Wilson: A Life in Nature). 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. - Amazon
language: English
title: John James Audubon - Making Of An American
titlecomplete: John James Audubon - Making Of An American
characters: John James Audubon
genres: Biography, Animals, Nature, Natural History, Birds, Science, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Art, History
ratings_count: 617
publisher: Alfred A. Knopf