The Passenger Pigeon

by John James Audubon

Book Overview

The great American naturalist John James Audubon is best known for his beautiful drawings of birds, collected in The Birds of America (1827-1838). The five-volume Ornithological Biography, a companion to the collection of drawings, was published in 1831 and includes this essay on the now-extinct passenger pigeon. In it, Audubon describes the bird's remarkable power of flight, power of vision, and hard-to-believe abundance. As he writes of a flock...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1429096209
• ISBN13: 9781429096201
• Release Date: June 2015
• Publisher: American Roots
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.2" x 6.7"