Nancy Plain

A wonderfully written introduction to Audubon's life and work, handsomely designed and full of beautiful reproductions of his art.

John James Audubon was born in Haiti in 1785. He always loved the wilderness as a kid, and was a good artist, too. He soon left home to go on an adventure to the states to find more birds. In the u.s., he found lots of new birds as well as love. He soon had to leave his wife, though, to continue. Audubon soon started to paint pictures of people for money, he was almost broke. Finally, he started to release new volumes of a bird book, The Birds of America, to make money. He went around Europe show more looking for subscribers. The book was a big success. The rest of This Strange wilderness shows his works.
This book was an interesting book, considering the fact that it is nonfiction. Nancy Plain did a good job of describing Audubon and including his thoughts and quotes. She also put in some of his works and pictures, which was pretty cool. This was probably one of the best nonfiction books that i have ever read, and it was well written. I think that this was a good book for its type. show less