Audubons Watch

Author : John Gregory Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780618257317
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Audubon's Watch written by John Gregory Brown and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1821, John James Audubon, a tutor on a Louisiana plantation, becomes involved in the mysterious death of the plantation's mistress.

Author : John James Audubon
Publisher : White Lion Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780565093396
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birds of America written by John James Audubon and published by White Lion Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Birds of America' is one of the best known natural history books ever produced and also one of the most valuable - a complete set sold at auction in December 2010 for 7.3 million, which is a world record.

Author : John Gregory Brown
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780395786079
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Audubon's Watch written by John Gregory Brown and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his deathbed, renowned ornithologist John James Audubon remains haunted by a thirty-year-old mystery about the sudden and enigmatic death of a beautiful woman, Myra Gautreaux, on the Louisiana plantation where Audubon is employed as a tutor, in an atmospheric novel based on a single entry from Audubon's diary. 15,000 first printing.

Author : John James Audubon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Birds of America written by John James Audubon and published by . This book was released on 1842 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revision of the Ornithological Biography, rearranged according to Audubon's Synopsis of the Birds of North America (1839).

Author : David Allen Sibley
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525520295
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What It's Like to Be a Bird written by David Allen Sibley and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The bird book for birders and nonbirders alike that will excite and inspire by providing a new and deeper understanding of what common, mostly backyard, birds are doing—and why: "Can birds smell?"; "Is this the same cardinal that was at my feeder last year?"; "Do robins 'hear' worms?" "The book's beauty mirrors the beauty of birds it describes so marvelously." —NPR In What It's Like to Be a Bird, David Sibley answers the most frequently asked questions about the birds we see most often. This special, large-format volume is geared as much to nonbirders as it is to the out-and-out obsessed, covering more than two hundred species and including more than 330 new illustrations by the author. While its focus is on familiar backyard birds—blue jays, nuthatches, chickadees—it also examines certain species that can be fairly easily observed, such as the seashore-dwelling Atlantic puffin. David Sibley's exacting artwork and wide-ranging expertise bring observed behaviors vividly to life. (For most species, the primary illustration is reproduced life-sized.) And while the text is aimed at adults—including fascinating new scientific research on the myriad ways birds have adapted to environmental changes—it is nontechnical, making it the perfect occasion for parents and grandparents to share their love of birds with young children, who will delight in the big, full-color illustrations of birds in action. Unlike any other book he has written, What It's Like to Be a Bird is poised to bring a whole new audience to David Sibley's world of birds.

Author : John Gregory Brown
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9781417717125
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Audubon's Watch written by John Gregory Brown and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2002-10-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, Audubon"s Watch is "a brazen performance" (New York Times Book Review) inspired by a brief journal entry made by the artist and ornithologist John James Audubon. This richly atmospheric novel traces the paths of two men whose lives are inextricably linked by the tragic events of a single night. Part historical novel, part Victorian murder mystery, Audubon"s Watch "peels away the familiar legend portion of the biography to explore the private mysteries of memory, remorse, and the redemption of pain" (Los Angeles Times). This is a mesmerizing tale, and "in the end, the subject matter of Brown"s material . . . permits him to capture, in midflight as it were, the hummingbird pulse of the human heart" (Orlando Sentinel).

Author : Roberta Olson
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
ISBN 13 : 0847834832
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Audubon's Aviary written by Roberta Olson and published by Rizzoli Publications. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A national treasure is celebrated in this landmark publication. The Birds of America is a monumental classic, but it has never been explored like this before. This important new volume presents all the dazzling watercolors that Audubon painted for these monumental engravings. We are familiar with the prints engraved by Robert Havell Jr., but Audubon’s Aviary illuminates the original masterpieces that were created by Audubon himself and tells the story behind their creation with fresh insights and engaging quotes from his writings. These powerful paintings—all newly photographed using state-of-the-art techniques—possess a startling immediacy, vibrancy, and fluidity that link natural history, art, and a respect for the environment. These watercolors transmit Audubon’s devotion to his craft with their inscriptions and layers of media wrought with a miniaturist’s attention to detail and their revolutionary compositions, which for the first time in history depicted all the birds life-size. Audubon is considered America’s first great watercolorist, introducing innovative approaches developed over a lifetime of study. Even judged alongside today’s technology, his dramatic tableaux remain some of the most spectacular natural history documents and visually arresting works of art ever produced.

Author : John James Audubon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780789211354
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Audubon's Birds of America written by John James Audubon and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Completely reorganized and annotated by Roger Tory Peterson, America's best known ornithologist, this spectacular new edition displays all 435 of Audubon's brilliant hand-colored engravings in exquisite reproductions taken from the original plates of the Audubon Society's archival copy of the rare Double Elephant Folio. 482 full-color illustrations. 435 duotones.

Author : Danny Heitman
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080717369X
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Summer of Birds written by Danny Heitman and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the summer of 1821, a cash-strapped John James Audubon worked as a tutor at Oakley Plantation in Louisiana’s rural West Feliciana Parish. This move initiated a profound change in direction for the struggling artist. Oakley’s woods teemed with life, galvanizing Audubon to undertake one of the most extraordinary endeavors in the annals of art: a comprehensive pictorial record of America’s birds. That summer, Audubon began what would eventually become his four-volume opus, Birds of America. In A Summer of Birds, Danny Heitman recounts the season that shaped Audubon’s destiny, sorting facts from romance to give an intimate view of the world’s most famous bird artist. A new preface marks the two-hundredth anniversary of that eventful interlude, reflecting on Audubon’s enduring legacy among artists, aesthetes, and nature lovers in Louisiana and around the world.

Author : Peter D. Vickery
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121185X
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Birds of Maine written by Peter D. Vickery and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and beautifully illustrated overview to the birds of Maine The first comprehensive overview of Maine’s incredibly rich birdlife in more than seven decades, Birds of Maine is a detailed account of all 464 species recorded in the Pine Tree State. It is also a thoroughly researched, accessible portrait of a region undergoing rapid changes, with southern birds pushing north, northern birds expanding south, and once-absent natives like Atlantic Puffins brought back by innovative conservation techniques pioneered in Maine. Written by the late Peter Vickery in cooperation with a team of leading ornithologists, this guide offers a detailed look at the state’s dynamic avifauna—from the Wild Turkey to the Arctic Tern—with information on migration patterns and timing, current status and changes in bird abundance and distribution, and how Maine's geography and shifting climate mold its birdlife. It delves into the conservation status for Maine's birds, as well as the state's unusually textured ornithological history, involving such famous names as John James Audubon and Theodore Roosevelt, and home-grown experts like Cordelia Stanwood and Ralph Palmer. Sidebars explore diverse topics, including the Old Sow whirlpool that draws multitudes of seabirds and the famed Monhegan Island, a mecca for migrant birds. Gorgeously illustrated with watercolors by Lars Jonsson and scores of line drawings by Barry Van Dusen, Birds of Maine is a remarkable guide that birders will rely on for decades to come. Copublished with the Nuttall Ornithological Club