The Audubon Reader: Edited and Introduced by Richard Rhodes

by John James Audubon

Book Overview

This unprecedented anthology of John James Audubon's lively and colorful writings about the American wilderness reintroduces the great artist and ornithologist as an exceptional American writer, a predecessor to Thoreau, Emerson, and Melville.

Audubon's award-winning biographer, Richard Rhodes, has gathered excerpts from his journals, letters, and published works, and has organized them to appeal to general readers. Rhodes's unobtrusive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1400043697
• ISBN13: 9781400043699
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Length: 656 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.4" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

A wonderful keepsake reader's edition of a classic collection of wildlife observations

Richard Rhodes is the author of more than twenty works of history and fiction, winning many awards: his biography of John James Audubon appeared in 2004 and this companion reader is a wonderful survey of Audubon's own colorful writings about the American wilderness. Rhodes edits and gathers the best of Audubon's own voice, providing an anthology spiced with full-color reproductions of sixteen of his watercolors. The result is a wonderful keepsake reader's edition of a classic collection of wildlife observations. Diane C. Donovan California Bookwatch