
- 520 pages
- English
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About this book
"In recreating The American Woodsman, as Audubon so delighted to characterize himself, it is with the hope that I shall let him speak for himself, and set him wandering again in the printed pages as he did, a century and more ago, through the magnolia forests of his beloved Louisiana."
â Stanley Clisby Arthur, from the Prologue
John James Audubon was one of the greatest artists and naturalists of all time. For many years a biographical screen consisting of a heterogeneous combination of fact, fancy, and misrepresentation obscured the real Audubon. Some of the contributions to this shroud were penned by loving but misguided relatives who, through domestic partiality when writing about him, colored his life misleadingly. His own account of himself and his affairs, which was never completed and was generously edited before being given to the public, is manifestly not four-square with fact... for Audubon had a romantic imagination which defeats verification.
This detailed biography provides an extensive look into the background of a man variously described as a dandy, an unkempt wanderer, and a gifted artist. Above all, it is clear that John James Audubon was a man of many talents, revealed here in his own words.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- Prologue: "THE AMERICAN WOODSMAN"
- Book One: The Boy Audubon
- CHAPTER 1: La Gerbetière on the Loire
- CHAPTER 2: Mill Grove on the Perkioming
- CHAPTER 3: The Louisville Venture
- Book Two: Audubon The Merchant
- CHAPTER 4: Henderson and the Infernal Mill
- Book Three: Audubon The Wanderer
- CHAPTER 5: On a Flatboat Down the Mississippi River
- CHAPTER 6: His Own Story of His Early Life
- CHAPTER 7: Birds, Broadhorns and Keelboats
- Book Four: In Old New Orleans
- CHAPTER 8: The Portrait Sketcher
- CHAPTER 9: Mme. AndrĂŠ and the Souvenir Gun
- CHAPTER 10: Cheese and Snubs
- Book Five: Audubon's Happyland
- CHAPTER 11: Feliciana
- CHAPTER 12: His Bird Heaven
- CHAPTER 13: Shadows On Oakley
- Book Six: The Itch of A Wandering Foot
- CHAPTER 14: The Little House in Dauphine Street
- CHAPTER 15: Failure in New Orleans
- CHAPTER 16: Natchez on the Hill
- CHAPTER 17: The Perambulating Portrait Painter
- CHAPTER 18: Seeking A Publisher
- CHAPTER 19: Back in Happyland
- Book Seven: Europe and Fame
- CHAPTER 20: An Odd-fish in Liverpool
- CHAPTER 21: In Fair Edina
- CHAPTER 22: London Town
- CHAPTER 23: Paris
- CHAPTER 24: Back in America
- CHAPTER 25: Final Days in Feliciana
- Book Eight: Audubon The Publisher
- CHAPTER 26: The Bird Biographies
- CHAPTER 27: In Florida Wilds
- CHAPTER 28: Down to the Labrador
- CHAPTER 29: To Louisiana for the Last Time
- CHAPTER 30: The Great Work Completed
- CHAPTER 31: To the Mountains of the Winds
- Epilogue: THE FINAL JOURNEY
- Appendices
- A: THE ENIGMA AND THE LOST DAUPHIN
- B: CRĂOLE DE SAINT-DOMINGUE
- C: THE WORKS OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
- D: AUTHENTIC LIKENESSES OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
- E: LIST OF PLATES
- F: AUTHORITIES
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INDEX