Duff Hart-Davis. Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of the Birds of America.(Book Review) From: Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada | Date: March 22, 2004| Author: Swanick, Eric | COPYRIGHT 2004 Bibliographical Society of Canada. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Duff Hart-Davis. Audubon's Elephant: America's Greatest Naturalist and the Making of the Birds of America. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003; New York: Henry Holt and Co., 2004. 288 pp.; $39.95 (Can.), $27.50 (US) (hardcover). ISBN 0 29 782967 x (Can.) / 0 80 507568 2 (US).

John James Audubon's Birds of America was published between the years 1826 and 1838. The 435 plates comprising the four-volume set were published as a double elephant folio (39.5" x 29-5 or 100 cm. ...