Research Catalog

Title

Audubon's America ; the narratives and experiences of John James Audubon / edited by Donald Culross Peattie; illustrated with facsimiles of Audubon's prints and paintings.

Author

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1940.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

• Peattie, Donald Culross, 1898-1964
• Thompson, Lovell
• Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
• Lakeside Press (Chicago, Ill.)

Description

vii, [1] pages, 1 leaf, 328, [1] pages : color frontispiece (portrait) color plates (part double); 30 cm

Subject

• Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
• Natural history > North America
• Natural history
• Travel
• North America > Description and travel
• North America

Note

• Map on lining-papers.
• "This edition is limited to three thousand and twenty-five autographed copies of which three thousand are for sale. The text was printed at the Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the plates were printed at the Lakeside Press in Chicago and the Tudor Press in Boston, in August, 1940.'--Page [i].
• Includes index.
• Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also issued online.

Contents

What Audubon knew -- Biographical note -- Audubon as a witness -- Kentucky days and nights -- Louisville in Kentucky (Audubon meets Alexander Wilson) -- Kentucky sports (Audubon meets Daniel Boone) -- The eccentric naturalist (Audubon meets Rafinesque) -- Hunters' tales -- A raccoon hunt in Kentucky -- The opposum -- The cougar -- Black bear -- Deer hunting -- Pioneer types -- The prairie -- The regulators -- Hospitality in the woods -- Meadville (Audubon as itinerant artist) -- The runaway -- The squatters of the Mississippi -- Deep South -- Down the Ohio and Mississippi -- New Orleans in 1821 -- The Florida Keys -- Four proud fowl -- Wild turkey -- Whooping crane -- Ivory-billed woodpecker -- Carolina parrot -- Down East for birds and subscribers -- Audubon's farthest north -- The eggers of Labrador -- Business in New England -- Out West with buffalo and Indians -- Up the Missouri -- On the Dakota prairies -- Envoi.

LCCN

40032960

OCLC

• ocm00492569
• 492569

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries