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Ep. 12: John James Audubon and Vanishing America

Ep. 12: John James Audubon and Vanishing America

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Before 1850 the artist and naturalist John James Audubon was
America’s most famous celebrity. His Birds of America was widely
regarded as “the greatest monument ever erected by art to
nature.” But like Thoreau, Audubon was also a witness to the
growing destruction of wild America. That was particularly
evident when he and his sons journeyed up the Missouri River in
the early 1840s to finish Audubon’s book on the mammals of
America. Stunned at the staggering diversity and abundance of
wild creatures visible in the West, Audubon soon despaired at the
wholesale (and to him) senseless destruction he saw, a disturbing
insight into human nature on a continent Audubon loved and tried
to preserve in paint and words.

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