This Strange Wilderness: The Life and Art of John James Audubon

John James Audubon worked as an explorer, hunter, and woodsman on the nineteenth-century frontier. He painted and wrote about American birds, becoming known as an ornithologist. Reproductions of his art appear alongside the account. A glossary, bibliography, and extensive notes accompany the book, documenting its subject and terminology. The book connects Audubon’s frontier activities with his written and painted studies of birds.