Audubon's Elephant

America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of The Birds of America

by Duff Hart-Davis

2003 288 pages eng

"Audubon's Elephant was the nickname given to John James Audubon's masterpiece, The Birds of America--an oversized folio of 435 life-size ornithological prints that remains to this day the most compelling depiction of bird life in the United States. Born in Haiti and raised in France, Audubon spent …