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In defence of John James Audubon 

The great artist and ornithologist who produced the magnificent Birds of America is now being shunned as a bird-slaughtering white supremacist

12 November 2022

9:00 AM

12 November 2022

9:00 AM

Audubon at Sea: The Coastal & Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon edited by Christopher Irmscher and Richard J. King

University of Chicago Press, pp.334, £24

The text of this well illustrated book is mostly John James Audubon’s, from journals unpublished in his lifetime. Part I describes his 1826 voyage from America to England to set in motion the great task – which would take 11 years – of fundraising for the printing of his mighty double elephant folio book in four volumes, The Birds of America.

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