Audubon's Elephant: The story of John James Audubon's epic struggle to publish The Birds of America - Brossura

Hart-Davis, Duff

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ISBN 10: 0753817888 ISBN 13: 9780753817889

Casa editrice: Phoenix, 2004

Riassunto

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, letters to his wife and the archives of the families with whom he stayed and worked, Duff Hart-Davis recreates Audubon's twelve years in Britain in search of patrons and publishers. It is an extraordinary story of an obsessive genius and his observations of people, places and events in early nineteenth-century England and Scotland.

'An attractive account of a publishing story that will be enjoyed both by specialists and by those who don't know one end of a Roseate Spoonbill from another' Daily Telegraph

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Recensione:

[an] excellent and finely illustrated biography. (INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY (1.8.04))

Descrizione del libro:

The unlikely story of how the most famous work on birds came into being.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Phoenix
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0753817888
• ISBN 13: 9780753817889
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 192