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Author | : Danny Heitman |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 133 |
Release | : 2020-02-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 080717369X |
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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.
Author | : Margarita Engle |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2010-04-27 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0805089373 |
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The story of a young girl living in the Middle Ages who took the time to observe the life cycle of butteflies--and in so doing disproved a theory that went all the way back to ancient Greece. Includes historical note.
Author | : Katherine Catmull |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 1101591595 |
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An enchanting--and twisted--tale of two sisters' quest to find their parents When their parents disappear in the middle of the night, young sisters Summer and Bird set off on a quest to find them. A cryptic picture message from their mother leads them to a familiar gate in the woods, but comfortable sights quickly give way to a new world entirely--Down--one inhabited by talking birds and the evil Puppeteer queen. Summer and Bird are quickly separated, and their divided hearts lead them each in a very different direction in the quest to find their parents, vanquish the Puppeteer, lead the birds back to their Green Home, and discover the identity of the true bird queen. With breathtaking language and deliciously inventive details, Katherine Catmull has created a world unlike any other, skillfully blurring the lines between magic and reality and bringing to life a completely authentic cast of characters and creatures.
Author | : Ali Liebegott |
Publisher | : Amethyst Editions |
Total Pages | : 105 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781936932504 |
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A queer poet documents depression and grief in this autobiographical novel-in-verse.
Author | : Danny Heitman |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 141 |
Release | : 2008-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0807139629 |
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As the summer of 1821 began, John James Audubon's ambition to create a comprehensive pictorial record of American birds was still largely a dream. Then, out of economic necessity, Audubon came to Oakley Plantation, a sprawling estate in Louisiana's West Feliciana Parish. Teeming with an abundance of birds, the woods of Oakley galvanized Audubon's sense of possibility for one of the most audacious undertakings in the annals of art. In A Summer of Birds, journalist and essayist Danny Heitman sorts through the facts and romance of Audubon's summer at Oakley, a season that clearly shaped the destiny of the world's most famous bird artist. Heitman draws from a rich variety of sources -- including Audubon's own extensive journals, more recent Audubon scholarship, and Robert Penn Warren's poetry -- to create a stimulating excursion across time, linking the historical man Audubon to the present-day civic and cultural icon. He considers the financial straits that led to Audubon's employment at Oakley as a private tutor to fifteen-year-old Eliza Pirrie, Audubon's family history, his flamboyance as a master of self-invention, his naturalist and artistic techniques, and the possible reasons for his dismissal. Illustrations include photographs of Oakley House -- now a state historic site -- Audubon's paintings from his Oakley period, and portraits of the Pirrie family members. A favorable combination of climate and geography made Oakley a birding haven, and Audubon completed or began at least twenty-three bird paintings -- among his finest work -- while staying there. A Summer of Birds will inform and delight readers in its exploration of this eventful but unsung 1821 interlude, a fascinating chapter in the life of America's foremost bird artist. It is an indispensable pleasure for birders, Audubon enthusiasts, and visitors to Oakley House.
Author | : Penelope Farmer |
Publisher | : Yearling |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : |
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A strange boy teaches the children in a small English village to fly like birds.
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Total Pages | : 6 |
Release | : 1879 |
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Publisher | : University of Arkansas Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781610750318 |
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Arkansas Birds fills a space too long empty on the shelves of ornithologists and students alike, of naturalists, wildlife and conservation groups, bird and garden club enthusiasts, artists, and those dedicated people who may be all of these. The authors have drawn upon a wide range of sources, from prehistoric Indian sites to present-day field observation, to cover ever species of wild bird recorded in Arkansas. Accounts of such extinct species as the Carolina Parakeet keep us from taking for granted even the Northern Bobwhite and other common modern species. Early chapters introduce the reader to the habitats favored by various species; full descriptions are accompanied by line drawings and color photos. Arkansas Birds serves both as a quick reference and a general historical review. A discussion of the Bald Eagle traces its history from bones found in Indian burials, through Audubon's early observations, to modern population declines and successful observation efforts. This attractive and accessible volume is a guide long-awaited by both the professional student of birds and the amateur with a backyard feeder.--Jacket.
Author | : William Warde Fowler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 1895 |
Genre | : Birds |
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Author | : Theodore Roosevelt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 4 |
Release | : 1877 |
Genre | : Bird populations |
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