| #5336573 in Books | 2004-07-01 | Format: Bargain Price | 7.80 x.67 x5.08l, | File type: PDF | 216 pages||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| Very interesting...for a short while|By Judy K. Polhemus|I wish I could say which ran out of steam first (if I may use a cliche)--the book or me. "Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of the Birds of America" began as such a promising book, but by mid-point I could read no more than a page or two without my mind blanking out from word fatigue. <|From Publishers Weekly|With precision and detail, Hart-Davis, an English nature writer, tells the story of Audubon's years in England and Europe trying to sell his unwieldy masterpiece. Audubon, at 41 years old a peripatetic woodsman and artist, sailed for Engla
Illegitimate, half-French, half-American, poorly educated, chronically short of money and obsessed with birds, Audubon came to England in 1826 to find a publisher for his extraordinary paintings. He insisted that they must be reproduced on double-elephant folio paper - sheets almost 40 inches by 30 - so that even the largest species could be represented life size, and no-one in America had been prepared to tackle such a gigantic task. Drawing on Audubon's journals, lette...
You easily download any file type for your device.Audubon's Elephant | Duff Hart-Davis. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
