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This Strange Wilderness

by Nancy Plain

Ages: 12+

Published: 2015

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

ISBN: 978-0-8032-4884-7

Keywords: Birds

Explorer, hunter, and woodsman of the 19th century frontier, Audubon painted and wrote about the birds of America to become the most famous ornithologist in the world. Reproductions of Audubon paintings, glossary, bibliography and copious notes.