Word: audubon
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...girl done with quasi-medieval flatness-from the Adams Museum in Quincy, Mass. From the Catskill (N.Y.) Public Library came a Prometheus Bound by pioneer U.S. Landscape Artist Thomas Cole; from Canajoharie, N.Y. a sensitive Italian Head by John Singer Sargent; and from Arizona State University, John James Audubon's Osprey and the Otter and the Salmon...
...Idahoan or Californian had the same assurance with Peterson's Field Guide to Western Birds. But Texas is where, ornithologically, East meets West, and North America meets near-tropical Mexico. The conscientious Texas birder needed both Peterson books -or all three volumes of Richard H. Pough's Audubon Bird Guides-and by the time he had riffled all the pages, the exciting "lifer'' (i.e., a new bird) had probably flown away still unidentified...
...Austin, Texas-no C.O.D.s). The Texas guide demonstrates once again why the Peterson volumes are rarae aves in the book trade. When the first modest edition of the Eastern volume appeared in 1934, it sold an unexpected 7,000 copies in its first year, more than the National Audubon Society's total membership at the time (now 33,000). Since then Peterson's Eastern guide has sold more than 525,000 copies, is running at 46,000 a year, while the Western guide has sold...
...success of the Peterson guides lies in their difference from earlier bird books, which were primarily artistic (like Audubon's) or coldly scientific treatises on dead specimens in museums. Peterson, a sometime art student and teacher, got the idea (from Ernest Thompson Seton's Two Little Savages') for schematic representations of birds as they are usually seen-at a distance, in flight or bobbing on the water. He has refined the idea into what he calls "the Peterson system." Under this system, major groups of birds are distinguished by obvious, overall characteristics. As he points...
Died. Reginald ("Rex") Brasher, 91, Brooklyn-born gambler, adventurer, painter-ornithologist whose 874 plates include every known type of North American bird, outnumbering by far the work of his predecessor, John James Audubon; in New Milford, Conn...