About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Beatrix Potter, John James Audubon, John White, William Henry Harvey, Maria Sibylla Merian, Gregory S. Paul, Ferdinand Bauer, Roger Swainston, Margaret Fountaine, Mel Hunter, Antoine Sonrel, Titian Peale, Astrid Andreasen, George Victor Du Noyer, Katherine Plunket, Marianne North, Alfred Thomas Agate, Dagny Tande Lid, J. C. McConnell, Technical illustration, Sydenham Edwards, Elizabeth Gould, Georg Dionysius Ehret, Hugh B. Cott, Jorg Kuhn, Heinrich Harder, John Latham, Mary Vaux Walcott, Sydney Parkinson, John Livzey Ridgway, Arthur Smith, Jill Adams, International Association of Astronomical Artists, William Kilburn, William Henry Prestele, Auguste Faguet, William Matthew Hart, David Quinn, William Didusch, Sarah Featon, John Frederick Miller, Soren Abildgaard, Irving Geis, Henry Bradbury, W. Lens Aldous, Franz Anton von Scheidel, John Nugent Fitch, Jacques de Seve, Doug Henderson. Excerpt: John James Audubon (Jean-Jacques Audubon) (April 26, 1785 - January 27, 1851) was a French-American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter. He was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book entitled The Birds of North America (1827-1839), is considered one of the finest ornithological works ever completed. Audubon identified 25 new species and a number of new sub-species. Jean-Jacques Audubon was born in Les Cayes in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (now Haiti) on his father's sugar plantation. He was the illegitimate (or natural) son of Lieutenant Jean Audubon, a French naval officer (and privateer), and his mistress Jeanne Rabine, a 27-year-old chambermaid from Les Touches, France. They named the boy Jean Rabin. His mother died when the boy was a few months old, as she had s...
