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Wings!
(Paperback)
Richard Smith
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R1,082
Discovery Miles 10 820
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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Over the summer of 1821, a cash-strapped John James Audubon worked
as a tutor at Oakley Plantation in Louisiana's rural West Feliciana
Parish. This move initiated a profound change in direction for the
struggling artist. Oakley's woods teemed with life, galvanizing
Audubon to undertake one of the most extraordinary endeavors in the
annals of art: a comprehensive pictorial record of America's birds.
That summer, Audubon began what would eventually become his
four-volume opus, Birds of America. In A Summer of Birds, Danny
Heitman recounts the season that shaped Audubon's destiny, sorting
facts from romance to give an intimate view of the world's most
famous bird artist. A new preface marks the two-hundredth
anniversary of that eventful interlude, reflecting on Audubon's
enduring legacy among artists, aesthetes, and nature lovers in
Louisiana and around the world.
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