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Author Plain, Nancy, author.

Title This strange wilderness : the life and art of John James Audubon / Nancy Plain.

Publication Info. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2015]
©2015
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1634858~S1
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 95th Street Juvenile Nonfiction  J 508.092 PLA    AVAILABLE
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Description xviii, 112 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-105) and index.
Contents Introduction : drawn from nature -- Beloved boy -- America, my country -- The American woodsman -- Down the Mississippi -- On the wing -- The birds of America -- Team Audubon -- This strange wilderness -- Audubon then and now -- Appendix : looking for Audubon and his world.
Summary Describes how the writer and naturalist set about recording in both word and image the birds of North America, and details the legacy his work has left behind.
Subject Audubon, John James, 1785-1851 -- Juvenile literature.
Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. Birds of America -- Juvenile literature.
Ornithologists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Naturalists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Wildlife artists -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Birds in art -- Juvenile literature.
Added Title Life and art of John James Audubon
ISBN 9780803248847 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0803248849 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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