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John James Audubon

Born

in Les Cayes, Haiti

April 26, 1785

Died

January 27, 1851

Website

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_James_Audubon

Genre

Arts & Photography, Science, Ornithology

Influences

John Woodhouse Audubon, Alexander Wilson ...more

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Such volumes as The Birds of America (1827-1838) collect naturalistic detail and artistic sensibility of noted engravings of Haitian-born ornithologist John James Audubon.

This able French painter expansively studied to document all types, and his illustrations depicted habitats. People consider his finest major work, a color-plate book, entitled and ever completed. Audubon identified 25 new species.

After 1819, Audubon went bankrupt, and people threw him into jail for debt. He drew portraits, particularly death-bed sketches, which country folk greatly esteemed before photography, to earn the little money. He wrote, "[M]y heart was sorely heavy, for scarcely had I enough to keep my dear ones alive; and yet through these dark days I was b ...more

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	Birds of America 4.52 avg rating — 389 ratings — published 1838 — 148 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John James Audubon: Writings and Drawings 4.32 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 1999 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Audubon Reader: Edited and Introduced by Richard Rhodes by John James Audubon, Richard Rhodes (Editor) 3.77 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1986 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Treasury of Audubon Birds: 130 Plates from The Birds of America by John James Audubon, Alan Weissman (Introduction) 4.65 avg rating — 26 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Original Water-Color Paintings by John James Audubon for The Birds Of America by John James Audubon, Marshall B. Davidson 4.52 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1966 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Audubon's Birds 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1991 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Audubon's Masterpieces by John James Audubon, David Reinhardt (Introduction) 4.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2004 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John James Audubon: The Watercolors for the Birds of America by John James Audubon, Annette Blaugrund, Theodore E. Stebbins Jr. 4.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Art of Audubon, the Complete Birds and Mammals by John James Audubon, Roger Tory Peterson (Introduction) 4.29 avg rating — 14 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Capturing Nature: The Writings and Art of John James Audubon by John James Audubon, Peter Roop (Editor), Connie Roop (Editor) 4.18 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 1993 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by John James Audubon (?)

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”
― John James Audubon

tags: conservationist, land, nature, science

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“The woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those who sang the best.”
― John James Audubon

tags: inspirational

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“As I grew up I was fervently desirous of becoming acquainted with Nature.”
― John James Audubon

tags: desire, growing-up, nature, science

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