Ocean State Libraries

"First published in installments between 1827 and 1838, John James Audubon's collection of life-sized watercolors of North American birds is the standard against which all wildlife illustration is measured. Fewer than 120 copies survive today, locked away in museums and private collections around the world. For this volume, the Natural History Museum in London disbound one of the two original editions it owns, and each of the 435 exquisite hand-colored...

Selections from Audubon's journals, scientific reports, and miscellaneous writing, skillfully compiled to create a record of his life from birth in Haiti in 1785 to his Yellowstone adventure in 1843.