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Audubon's America : the narratives and experiences of John James Audubon

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]
  • ©1940

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Additional Authors
  • Peattie, Donald Culross, 1898-1964
  • Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.)
  • Lakeside Press (Chicago, Ill.)
Description
vii, [1] p., 1 ., 328, [1] p. : col. front. (port.) col. plates (part double); 30 cm.
Alternative Title
Narratives and experiences of John James Audubon
Subject
  • Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
  • Audubon, John James, 1785-1851
  • Natural history > North America
  • Birds > North America
  • Birds
  • Natural history
  • Travel
  • North America > Description and travel
  • North America
Genre/Form
  • diaries.
  • autobiographies (literary works)
  • Diaries
  • Autobiographies
  • Autobiographies.
  • Diaries.
  • Journaux intimes.
Note
  • Map on lining-papers.
  • is unbound.
Source (note)
  • Bequest of Arthur C. Holden, Princeton Class of 1912.
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 opossum -- 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
  • SCSB-134411
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library