This splendid volume is the most creative study ever made of Audubon's mammal paintings.

John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would s

This edition has 65 new images, making a total of 500. The original configurations were altered so that there is only one species per plate. The text is a revis

Birds were "the objects of my greatest delight," wrote John James Audubon (1785-1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world's greatest bird painte