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John James Audubon was an American ornithologist, naturalist, and
painter. The Birds of America contains 435 life-size watercolours
of North American birds, some of which reproduced here in our
QuickNotes notecard set. 20 notecards and envelopes, 5 each of 4
images. Packaged in a sleek, sturdy flip-top box with magnetic
closure. Cards printed on coated paper stock to bring out their
full colour. Cards and envelopes bundled together with a paper
belly band inside each box. Box measurements 143 x 120 x 34mm.
Natural history illustration is a popular choice for artists and
perfect for developing colour technique.
The Birds of America is one of the best known natural history books
ever produced and also the most valuable - a complete set sold at
auction in December 2010 for GBP7.3 million, which is a world
record for a book. First published in double elephant size
(approximately a metre tall) in the first half of the nineteenth
century, it is famous for its stunning life-size illustrations of
birds set within landscaped backgrounds. The book was issued
inparts over 11 years and only around 200 completed sets were ever
produced. Less than 120 of these survive today, locked away in
museums, galleries and private collections around the world. To
create this edition of Audubon's masterpiece, the Natural History
Museum's own original edition was disbound and each of the 435
beautiful hand-coloured prints was specially photographed. The
artworks are accompanied by the scientific descriptions that were
used in the original The Birds of America and there is also a new
introduction by David Allen Sibley.
Many people believe in Jesus Christ but want nothing to do with the
church. Some others who call themselves committed Christians will
not commit to a local church. We have to be honest. There is a
dearth in the church in many countries. At times the church has
been very sick and the illness seemed to be terminal; yet it
survives and in many places grows phenomenally. "Dry Bones can
Live", addresses this problem and proposes a dynamic remedy;
setting out a strategy for local churches to consider. It is full
of stories from the pastor's casebook, which illustrate the reality
and effectiveness of the Gospel in transforming lives
This book is based on William Caxton's translation of 15th century
French author Raoul Lefevre book Histoire de Jason (he wrote in
1460). The Histoire de Jason is known from 20 manuscripts and 30
different printed editions, and was translated in English in 1477
by William Caxton, and in Dutch in 1485. Lefevre was the chaplain
of Philip the Good, the creator of the Order of the Golden Fleece,
which was based on the classical Jason story.
John James Audubon is arguably America's most widely recognized and
collected artist. His Birds of America has been reproduced often,
beginning with the double elephant folio printed by Havill in
England, followed by a much smaller "Octavo" edition printed in
Philadelphia and sold by subscription. After Audubon's death, his
family arranged with the New York printer Julius Bien to produce
another elephant folio edition, this time by the new
chromolithographic process. It too would be sold by subscription,
but the venture, begun in 1858, was brought to an abrupt end by the
Civil War. Only 150 plates were produced, and the number remaining
today is slight; they are among the rarest and most sought after
Audubon prints. Bound in cloth with a full cloth slipcase, this
beautifully produced book is the first complete reproduction of
Bien chromolithographs and will become the centerpiece of any bird
lover's library.
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is an elegant
debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist in a state
of loss. "We lived overlooking the walls overlooking the cemetery."
So begins the title poem of this collection, whose recursive
temporality is filled with living, grieving things, punctuated by
an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed histories. Like a
cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets unlikely neighbors alongside
each other: Hegel and Murakami, Melville and the Persian astronomer
al-Sufi, enacting a transhistorical poetics even as it brims with
intimacy. These are poems of frequent swerves and transformations,
which never stray far from an engagement with science, geography,
art, and aesthetics, nor from the dream logic that motivates their
incessant investigations. Indeed, while John James begins with the
biographical-the haunting loss of a father in childhood, the
exhausted hours of early fatherhood-the questions that emerge from
his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it to
be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live in
a time of political and environmental upheaval, of both personal
and public loss? How do we make meaning, and to whom-or what-do we
turn, when such boundaries so radically collapse?
This book is based on William Caxton's translation of 15th century
French author Raoul Lefevre book Histoire de Jason (he wrote in
1460). The Histoire de Jason is known from 20 manuscripts and 30
different printed editions, and was translated in English in 1477
by William Caxton, and in Dutch in 1485. Lefevre was the chaplain
of Philip the Good, the creator of the Order of the Golden Fleece,
which was based on the classical Jason story.
First published in the middle of the nineteenth century, following
years of research and field study, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of
North America (its original title) became the outstanding
illustrated work on American mammals of its time and is still
considered by many to include the finest animal prints published in
North America. The book included many frontier animals never
depicted before and helped to increase appreciation of American
nature around the world. This edition of Audubon's classic work has
been directly reproduced from an original copy held by the Library
of the Natural History Museum, London. All the mammals' current
scientific names have been included in the reference section at the
back of the book.
Everything about Suffolk is unexpected: A New Suffolk Garland
gathers the best writing, new and old, from people who love this
special county. Everything about Suffolk is unexpected. For
centuries it has been a much-loved place for writers, artists,
musicians, fishermen, farmers ... A New Suffolk Garland gathers the
best writing, new and old, from people who love this special
county: from a twelfth-century monk to Ed Sheeran, through
Gainsborough, Dickens, W.G. Sebald, Ronald Blythe, Robert
MacFarlane, Michael Ondaatje and Penelope Fitzgerald to Roger
Deakin, Melissa Harrison and Helen Macdonald. The anthology
contains specially written new work by Craig Brown, Ralph Fiennes,
India Knight, Olivia Laing, Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Robin Robertson
and Lucy Walker. From the art of hedge-laying to the undiscovered
treasures of Suffolk's churches, from the Suffolk punch stable to
Delia Smith's kitchen table, from swimming with otters in the River
Waveney to the golden aurioles of Lakenheath, this new collection
encapsulates all that is best about Suffolk.
In poems as tautly constructed as they are trenchantly observed,
Winter, Glossolalia probes the nature of language to depict the
world from which it springs. Paired with humorous, often satirical
images, this collection explores human ingenuity and creativity
against the material resources of the given world, highlighting the
possibilities and the limits of artistic making. In that sense, it
is both a timely and enduring book, one that recalls Virgil’s
Georgics as readily as it evokes the crisis of anthropogenic
climate change.
Winner of the Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Milk Hours is
an elegant debut that searches widely to ask what it means to exist
in a state of loss. “We lived overlooking the walls overlooking
the cemetery.†So begins the title poem of this collection, whose
recursive temporality is filled with living, grieving things,
punctuated by an unseen world of roots, bodies, and concealed
histories. Like a cemetery, too, The Milk Hours sets
unlikely neighbors alongside each other: Hegel and Murakami,
Melville and the Persian astronomer al-Sufi, enacting a
transhistorical poetics even as it brims with intimacy. These are
poems of frequent swerves and transformations, which never stray
far from an engagement with science, geography, art, and
aesthetics, nor from the dream logic that motivates their incessant
investigations. Indeed, while John James begins with the
biographical—the haunting loss of a father in childhood, the
exhausted hours of early fatherhood—the questions that emerge
from his poetic synthesis are both timely and universal: what is it
to be human in an era where nature and culture have fused? To live
in a time of political and environmental upheaval, of both personal
and public loss? How do we make meaning, and to whom—or what—do
we turn, when such boundaries so radically collapse?
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The Birds of America (Hardcover)
John james Audubon; Introduction by David Allen Sibley
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This stunning edition of one of the most celebrated and highly
valued natural history books of all time features impeccably
reproduced images of Audubon's original watercolors, along with an
introduction by world-renowned ornithologist David Allen Sibley.
First published in installments between 1827 and 1838, John James
Audubon's collection of life-sized watercolors of North American
birds is the standard against which all wildlife illustration is
measured. Fewer than 120 copies survive today, locked away in
museums and private collections around the world. For this volume,
the Natural History Museum in London disbound one of the two
original editions it owns, and each of the 435 exquisite
hand-colored prints of the original watercolours were photographed
using the latest digital scanning technology. From an avocet
grazing in a tidal pond to a zenaida dove perched on a flowering
branch, each of Audubon's subjects is depicted with the grace and
beauty of a living bird in its natural habitat. An avid outdoorsman
and explorer, Audubon traveled from Florida to Labrador to Texas
and the Dakotas to study and collect his specimens. Straddling the
line between science and art, this book mesmerized 19th-century
audiences around the world; today it stands as a reminder of the
spectacular biodiversity of the North American continent, and of
the pioneer spirit that Audubon himself revered.
Every week between Easter and November, some 200 funfairs open in
cities and towns across every part of the UK. Over 4500 travelling
showmen and their families run them, a community deeply rooted in
historical tradition and strong family values. "Fairground
Attraction" has the intimacy of a family album. Through formal
portraits and candid observation we meet showmen not only at work
but also away from their brash, public arena in the private spaces
of their living trailers and winter-quarters and during their
family celebrations.
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.
of Audubon's noted illustrations rendered for coloring by Paul Kennedy: red-winged blackbird, painted bunting, wood duck, great blue heron, ruby-throated hummingbird, purple finch, blue jay, etc. Original plates reproduced in full color on covers. Common and scientific names and current range. ..".printed on quality stock which works with a variety of media..."--Bookstyle.
We need a bigger vision for the city. It's not enough to plant
individual churches in isolation from each other. The spiritual
need and opportunity of our cities is too big for any one church to
meet alone. Pastors Neil Powell and John James contend that to
truly transform a city, the gospel compels us to create localized,
collaborative church planting movements. They share lessons learned
and principles discovered from their experiences leading a
successful citywide movement. The more willing we are to
collaborate across denominations and networks, the more effectively
we will reach our communities-whatever their size-for Jesus. Come
discover what God can do in our cities when we work together.
Add avian appeal to almost any flat surface with 24 beautiful
full-color reproductions of Audubon's exquisite paintings of a
brown pelican, mountain quail, snow bunting, burrowing owl, red
knot, Anna's hummingbird, cerulean warbler and many others. Just
peel and apply. Also great for learning to recognize and identify
various species.
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