Audubon, Bachman, and the quadrupeds of North America.(John James Audubon and the Reverend John Bachman, environmentalists)
From: The Magazine Antiques
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Date: 11/1/2000
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Author: PECK, ROBERT McCRACKEN
They were the most unlikely friends: the hard-living, hard-drinking bastard of a French sea captain and the quiet, teetotaling pastor of a conservative Lutheran Church in Charleston, South Carolina. Yet John James Audubon (Pl. I) and the Reverend John Bachman (Pl. III) were united by a passion for natural history that overrode their differences and resulted in one of the great scientific and artistic achievements of the nineteenth century. Their collaborative book, The Viviparous ...
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