America's Other Audubon: (original Color Lithographs, Archival Photographs, and Field Notes on the Nests and Eggs That Audubon Omitted)

by Joy Kiser and Joy M. Kiser

America's Other Audubon chronicles the story of Genevieve Jones, her family, and the making of an extraordinary nineteenth-century book, Illustrations of the Nests and Eggs of Birds of Ohio. At the age of twenty-nine, Genevieve Jones, an amateur naturalist/artist and daughter of a country doctor, visited the 1876 Centennial World's Fair in Philadelphia, where she saw Audubon's paintings in Birds of America on display. His artwork inspired her to undertake...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1616890592
• ISBN13: 9781616890599
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 11.2" x 13.1"