Displaying 1 of 1 2024 Format: Book Author: Kaufman, Kenn, author. Title: The birds that Audubon missed : discovery and desire in the American wilderness / Kenn Kaufman. Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. Publisher, Date: New York, NY : Avid Reader Press, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, LLC, 2024. Description: 400 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm Summary: "Naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world"-- Provided by publisher. Subjects: Ornithology -- United States -- History. Birds -- United States -- Identification -- History. Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: The undescribed world -- Names and numbers. Channeling the illustrator: when the dream came -- A thicket of thrushes. Channeling the illustrator: the feather problem -- Hidden identities -- Feuding in Philadelphia. Channeling the illustrator: double vision -- The fugitive warblers. Channeling the illustrator: all those plants -- Florida on the edge. Channeling the illustrator: the size of the challenge -- Strangers on the shore. Channeling the illustrator: materials and methods -- Lost in Texas -- Abundant life -- The big (small) do-over -- A shifting horizon. Channeling the illustrator: vision impossible -- The search never ends. LCCN: 2023057178 ISBN: 9781668007594 Other Number: 1405189282 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 1070031 # Local items in: 0 # System items in: 0 Call Number: 598.097 Kaufman Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
