Hart-Davis : Audubon's Elephant : The Story of John James Audubon's epie struggle to publish »The Birds of America«

| 2003 | | Geb/SU, F:17,5x22,5 cm, 288 S, 24 Illustrationen, davon 16 in Farbe. | WG: Buch | | Drawing on Audubon's journals, letters and archives, Duff Hart-Davis recreates Audubon's 12 years in Britain in search of patrons and publishers. It is a story of an obsessive genius and his observations of people, places and events in early 19th-century England and Scotland. | [E] | |