Audubon’s elephant: the story of John James Audubon’s epic struggle to publish The Birds of America.

Name: Audubon's elephant: the story of John James Audubon's epic struggle to publish The Birds of America.
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The author records the genesis and gestation of the double-elephant folio, and uses contemporary sources to illuminate an extraordinary character.

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SKU: bd6a06f41bae Categories: biographylit, Birds, New Books

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Phoenix, Octavo, paperback, colour illustrations.

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