John James Audubon – The Nature of the American Woodsman Nobles Paperback

University of Pennsylvania Press

John James AudubonThe Nature of the American Woodsman\nAuthor(s): Gregory Nobles\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9781512823714, 978-1512823714\nSynopsis\nJohn James Audubon's The Birds of America stands as an unparalleled achievement in American art, a huge book that puts nature dramatically on the page. With that work, Audubon became one of the most adulated artists of his time, and America's first celebrity scientist.\n In this fresh approach to Audubon's art and science, Gregory Nobles shows us that Audubon's greatest creation was himself. A self-made man incessantly striving to secure his place in American society, Audubon made himself into a skilled painter, a successful entrepreneur, and a prolific writer, whose words went well beyond birds and scientific description. He sought status with the \""gentlemen of science\"" on both sides of the Atlantic, but he also embraced the ornith.