Audubon : the Kentucky years / L. Clark Keating.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keating, L. Clark (Louis Clark), 1907-1991, author.

Series:

Kentucky Bicentennial bookshelf.

Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Audubon, John James, 1785-1851.

Audubon, John James.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (104 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kentucky attracted an amazing variety of would-be settlers in pioneer days, but none with brighter talent than John James Audubon. Although his years in the state came long before publication of the monumental Birds of America, he was already painting the scenes from nature that were to make him famous. Audubon: The Kentucky Years is the captivating account of Audubon's sojourn in Kentucky from his arrival in in 1807 as a gregarious twenty-two-year-old storekeeper to his departure in 1819, when his failure in business was about to force him to seek a livelihood from his skill as an artist.

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Jean-Jacques Audubon; 2 To the Woods of Kentucky; 3 Louisville, 1807; 4 The Storekeeper Takes a Wife; 5 A Memorable Meeting; 6 The Move to Henderson; 7 Audubon and Thomas Bakewell; 8 Picaresque Encounters; 9 Last Days in Kentucky; 10 Epilogue

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813188973

0813188970

9780813150239

081315023X

OCLC:

570168134