Audubon, Bachman, and the quadrupeds of North America.(John James Audubon and the Reverend John Bachman, environmentalists)

The Magazine Antiques | November 1, 2000| | Copyright

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 Quadrupeds of North America, published in three imperial volumes (without text) between 1845 and ...

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