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DIY Homeschooler
John James Audubons Birds of America published over a period of eleven years made him a popular naturalist.
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- Map the following (youll find mapping resources below):
- Please note: For many years there was a bit of a mystery about Audubons birth, and the book incorrectly says that Audubon was born in Louisiana. He was actually born in Les Cayes, St. Dominigue (now Haiti) and named Jean-Jacques Audubon. He was raised and educated in France, changing his name to John James when he immigrated to the United States at the age of
- Audubon knew more about the birds of this country than any man had ever known before. Become a bird man yourself! Learn about the birds in your country, or at least those close to home. Youll find many resources in our Audubon unit study.
- Learn to draw birds. Choose your favorite bird and, using some of the resources below, draw your own picture of it.
- Blow your own egg and decorate, using an egg from your refrigerator. (See Activities below.
- View a few of Audubons portraits, including one of Daniel Boone. Do you think he was better at drawing portraits or birds? Which did he spend the most time doing?
- Enjoy looking at Birds of America, the book
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Southern Life in Southern Literature/John James Audubon
[John James Audubon was born near New Orleans in of French and Spanish extraction. He was educated in Paris, where he had lessons in painting from the celebrated painter J. L. David. Returning to America in , he settled on an estate of his father's near Philadelphia, and gave himself up to the study of natural history, and especially to the drawing of birds. Afterwards he was for a time a merchant in various Southern cities. Finally he gave up all regular business pursuits and spent his time roaming hither and thither in the forests making observations of animal and of bird life. His greatest production, "The Birds of America," published from to , consisted of five volumes of biographies of birds and four volumes of portraits of birds, the latter volumes containing over four hundred drawings, colored and life-size.]
EARLY SETTLERS ALONG THE MISSISSIPPI
Although every European traveler who has glided down the Mississippi at the rate of ten miles an hour has told his tale of the squatters, yet none has given any other account of them than that they are "a sallow, sickly-looking sort of miserable being," living in swamps and subsisting on pignuts, Indian corn, and bear's flesh. It is obvious, however, that