Audubon
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Audubon

An Intimate Life of the American Woodsman

  1. 520 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Audubon

An Intimate Life of the American Woodsman

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."

— 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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eBook ISBN
9781455600472
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  3. Prologue: "THE AMERICAN WOODSMAN"
  4. Book One: The Boy Audubon
  5. CHAPTER 1: La Gerbetière on the Loire
  6. CHAPTER 2: Mill Grove on the Perkioming
  7. CHAPTER 3: The Louisville Venture
  8. Book Two: Audubon The Merchant
  9. CHAPTER 4: Henderson and the Infernal Mill
  10. Book Three: Audubon The Wanderer
  11. CHAPTER 5: On a Flatboat Down the Mississippi River
  12. CHAPTER 6: His Own Story of His Early Life
  13. CHAPTER 7: Birds, Broadhorns and Keelboats
  14. Book Four: In Old New Orleans
  15. CHAPTER 8: The Portrait Sketcher
  16. CHAPTER 9: Mme. AndrĂŠ and the Souvenir Gun
  17. CHAPTER 10: Cheese and Snubs
  18. Book Five: Audubon's Happyland
  19. CHAPTER 11: Feliciana
  20. CHAPTER 12: His Bird Heaven
  21. CHAPTER 13: Shadows On Oakley
  22. Book Six: The Itch of A Wandering Foot
  23. CHAPTER 14: The Little House in Dauphine Street
  24. CHAPTER 15: Failure in New Orleans
  25. CHAPTER 16: Natchez on the Hill
  26. CHAPTER 17: The Perambulating Portrait Painter
  27. CHAPTER 18: Seeking A Publisher
  28. CHAPTER 19: Back in Happyland
  29. Book Seven: Europe and Fame
  30. CHAPTER 20: An Odd-fish in Liverpool
  31. CHAPTER 21: In Fair Edina
  32. CHAPTER 22: London Town
  33. CHAPTER 23: Paris
  34. CHAPTER 24: Back in America
  35. CHAPTER 25: Final Days in Feliciana
  36. Book Eight: Audubon The Publisher
  37. CHAPTER 26: The Bird Biographies
  38. CHAPTER 27: In Florida Wilds
  39. CHAPTER 28: Down to the Labrador
  40. CHAPTER 29: To Louisiana for the Last Time
  41. CHAPTER 30: The Great Work Completed
  42. CHAPTER 31: To the Mountains of the Winds
  43. Epilogue: THE FINAL JOURNEY
  44. Appendices
  45. A: THE ENIGMA AND THE LOST DAUPHIN
  46. B: CRÉOLE DE SAINT-DOMINGUE
  47. C: THE WORKS OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
  48. D: AUTHENTIC LIKENESSES OF JOHN JAMES AUDUBON
  49. E: LIST OF PLATES
  50. F: AUTHORITIES
  51. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  52. INDEX