[PDF.97in] Alexander Wilson: The Scot Who Founded American Ornithology

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 | #997407 in Books |  Belknap Press |  2013-06-24 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.50 x6.75 x1.50l,2.11 | File type: PDF | 464 pages

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||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| The Man Who Gave Mr Aududon An Idea|By C. Henig|Whenever anyone thinks of someone tramping through the newly-formed United States drawing sketches of American birds, one doesn't think of Alexander Wilson. Alexander Who? But Wilson was actually the person who gave John James Audubon, shopkeeper and amateur bird artist the idea to copy what Wilson was doing in putting together a| |A definitive work on the history of bird art, ornithology, and nature writing. Volumes have been written on Audubon as though he were the dean of American ornithology, but Burtt and Davis reveal Alexander Wilson as providing the foundation. (Bern

Audubon was not the father of American ornithology. That honorific belongs to Alexander Wilson, whose encyclopedic American Ornithology established a distinctive approach that emphasized the observation of live birds. In the first full-length study to reproduce all of Wilson’s unpublished drawings for the nine-volume Ornithology, Edward Burtt and William Davis illustrate Wilson’s pioneering and, today, underappreciated achievement as the firs...

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