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Tenacious of Life - The Quadruped Essays of John James Audubon and John Bachman (Hardcover)
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Tenacious of Life - The Quadruped Essays of John James Audubon and John Bachman (Hardcover)
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Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case for
considering John James Audubon's and John Bachman's quadruped
essays as worthy of literary analysis and redefine the role of
Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays. After
completing The Birds of America (1826-38), Audubon began developing
his work on the mammals. The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America
volumes show an antebellum view of nature as fundamentally dynamic
and simultaneously grotesque and awe-inspiring. The quadruped
essays are rich with good stories about these mammals and the
humans who observe, pursue, and admire them. For help with the
science and the essays, Audubon enlisted the Reverend John Bachman
of Charleston, South Carolina. While he has been acknowledged as
coauthor of the essays, Bachman has received little attention as an
American nature writer. While almost all works that describe the
history of American nature writing include Audubon, Bachman shows
up only in a subordinate clause or two. Tenacious of Life strives
to restore Bachman's status as an important American nature writer.
Patterson and Russell analyze the coauthorial dance between the
voices of Audubon, an experienced naturalist telling adventurous
hunting stories tinged often by sentiment, romanticism, and
bombast, and of Bachman, the courteous gentleman naturalist,
scientific detective, moralist, sometimes cruel experimenter, and
humorist. Drawing on all the primary and secondary evidence,
Patterson and Russell tell the story of the coauthors' fascinating,
conflicted relationship. This collection offers windows onto the
early United States and much forgotten lore, often in the form of
travel writing, natural history, and unique anecdotes, all told in
the compelling voices of Antebellum America's two leading
naturalists.
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