Book · 1994 · Art
Audubon's Birds of America
The Royal Octavo Edition
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Robert Evans The tale of The Runaway, one of the episodes about American life he inserted into his 30,000page five volum… 4
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“His great work, which is what he calls it, would be to decisively identify, name, and sketch every single bird species in the parts of North America controlled by the US government. He called this book the birds of America”
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“And he succeeds. He drums up a lot of huge amounts of money, enough to fund the birds of America. So that's good.”
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“The tale of The Runaway, one of the episodes about American life he inserted into his 30,000page five volume ornithological biography, a companion to Birds of America, spins the tale of an encounter with a black man in a Louisiana swamp.”
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“The Birds of America and the works that followed made Ottabon a household name among people who liked birds. He traveled back and forth to Europe where he was a celebrity and he doubled and trebled down on his racism.”
