{"product_id":"the-audubon-reader-edited-by-richard-rhodes","title":"'The Audubon Reader' edited by Richard Rhodes","description":"\u003ch4 data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"1006\"\u003eThe collected writings of John James Audubon. An artist, ornithologist, traveller, self-mythologiser, wilderness obsessive, and one of the great strange figures of American natural history.\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"531\" data-end=\"1006\"\u003eBest known for \u003cem data-start=\"781\" data-end=\"803\"\u003eThe Birds of America\u003c\/em\u003e, Audubon was not only a painter of birds but a restless recorder of landscape, weather, animals, travel, hunger, danger, solitude, vanity, encounter, and the so-called “New World.” Edited by Richard Rhodes, this anthology gathers from Audubon’s journals, letters, and published works, presenting him not simply as a naturalist but as a vivid, highly charged prose writer. His pages are full of birds, of course, but also boats, weather, wolves, ice, exhaustion, violence, awkward human meetings and much, much observation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"1515\" data-end=\"2018\"\u003eAudubon’s world is alive, gorgeous, brutal, acquisitive, and often ethically uncomfortable: beauty and possession tangled together, taxonomy with mud on its boots. It lets you read the wilderness imagination from inside its contradictions: wonder, appetite, science, conquest, attention, and art all flapping around in the same net.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2281\" data-end=\"2369\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEveryman’s Library hardback. Edited by Richard Rhodes. 2006. Ribbon marker. Lovely copy, in very good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45175033987155,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Yourparagraphtext-2026-06-03T132001.640.png?v=1780456822","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-audubon-reader-edited-by-richard-rhodes","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}