Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America,New

Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of The Birds of America,New

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The life and times of a complex genius and the masterpiece he createdIn the century and a half since Audubon's death, his name has become synonymous with wildlife conservation and natural history. But few people know what a complicated figure he wasor the dramatic story behind The Birds of America.Before Audubon, ornithological illustrations depicted scaleddown birds perched in static poses. Wheeling beneath stormwracked skies or ripping flesh from freshly killed prey, Audubon's lifesize birds looked as if they might fly screeching off the page. The wildness in the images matched the untamed spirit in Audubona selftaught painter and selfanointed aristocrat who, with his buckskins and long hair, wanted to be seen as both a hardened frontiersman and a cultured man of science.In truth, neither his friends nor his detractors ever knew exactly who Audubon was or where he came from. Tormented by a fog of ambiguities surrounding his birth, he reinvented himself ceaselessly, creating a life as dramatic as his fictionalizations of it. But when he came east at thirtyeightbroke and desperate to find a publisher for his Birdshe ran squarely into a scientific establishment still wedded to convention and suspicious of the brash newcomer and his grandiose claims.It took Audubon fifteen years to prevail in both his project and his vision. How he triumphed and what drove him is the subject of this gripping narrative.

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