Title: Alexander Wilson
Description: Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson's unpublished drawings for the nine-volume Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson's pioneering and, today, underappreciated achievement as the first ornithologist to describe the birds of the North American wilderness.
Subjects: Pictorial works, Ornithology, Illustrations, Biography, Birds, Ornithologists, History, Wilson, alexander, 1766-1813, Birds, united states, Ornithologie
Places: United States
People: Alexander Wilson (1766-1813)