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Ford, Alice, 1906- author.

John James Audubon / by Alice Ford.

First edition

Norman : University of Oklahoma Press, [1964]

Norman, Oklahoma : Composed and Printed by the University of Oklahoma Press, [Printing Division]

[Meriden, Connecticut] : [Illustrations, Paintings, and Old Photographs are Halftones by Offset at Meriden Gravure]

[St. Louis] : [Binding by The Becktold Co.]

xiv, 488 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm

A biography based on Audubon's personal records, documents, and letters.

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.

Ornithologists -- United States -- 19th century -- Biography.

Biographies.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 451-469) and index (page 470).

Southeastern Library Association Southern Books Competition, 1964

Bird of passage -- Two worlds -- The birth of an artist -- Pennsylvania -- Nantes and revolution -- Rochefort and Coueron -- American woodsman -- Mill Grove -- A mission -- Preludes -- A wilder range -- Cross currents -- Aftermath -- Windward -- Down the Mississippi -- On a desperate rock -- Adrift again -- Immense ocean -- Sea change -- First flight -- Manchester -- False start -- The monster, London -- Against the wind -- Paris -- Strange ultimatum -- America, my country -- Wander year -- A return -- Eyes of the world -- New England and Labrador -- War of words -- High tide -- Something within me -- Great naturalist -- Realization -- Ebb tide -- Homecoming -- Minnie's land -- Upper Missouri -- And now, adieu -- Long pond -- Chronology -- An art miscellany -- The Audubon classics.

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