The birds that Audubon missed : discovery and desire in the American wilderness /
Kaufman, Kenn,
The birds that Audubon missed : discovery and desire in the American wilderness / Kenn Kaufman. - First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. - ix, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-370) and index.
Prologue: A song in Labrador -- The undescribed world -- Names and numbers -- Channeling the illustrator : when the dream came -- A thicket of thrushes -- Channeling the illustrator : the feather problem -- Hidden identities -- Feuding in Philadelphia -- Channeling the illustrator : double vision -- The fugitive warblers -- Channeling the illustrator : all those plants -- Florida on the edge -- Channeling the illustrator : the size of the challenge -- Strangers on the shore -- Channeling the illustrator : materials and methods -- Lost in Texas -- Abundant life -- The big (small) do-over -- A shifting horizon -- Channeling the illustrator : vision impossible -- The search never ends.
"Naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world"--
9781668007594 1668007592
2023057178
Ornithology--History.--United States
Birds--Identification--History.--United States
The birds that Audubon missed : discovery and desire in the American wilderness / Kenn Kaufman. - First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. - ix, 387 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 369-370) and index.
Prologue: A song in Labrador -- The undescribed world -- Names and numbers -- Channeling the illustrator : when the dream came -- A thicket of thrushes -- Channeling the illustrator : the feather problem -- Hidden identities -- Feuding in Philadelphia -- Channeling the illustrator : double vision -- The fugitive warblers -- Channeling the illustrator : all those plants -- Florida on the edge -- Channeling the illustrator : the size of the challenge -- Strangers on the shore -- Channeling the illustrator : materials and methods -- Lost in Texas -- Abundant life -- The big (small) do-over -- A shifting horizon -- Channeling the illustrator : vision impossible -- The search never ends.
"Naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world"--
9781668007594 1668007592
2023057178
Ornithology--History.--United States
Birds--Identification--History.--United States