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© 2004, Text by William Souder

© 2014, Cover art by John James Audubon

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Published 2014 by Milkweed Editions

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Cover art by John James Audubon

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Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published and unpublished material: Lines from “Sleepless night” by Octavio Paz, translated by Eliot Weinberger, from The Collected Poems 1957–1987, copyright © 1986 by Octavio Paz and Eliot Weinberger. Reprinted by permission of New Directions Publishing Corp.

The author also wishes to thank the American Philosophical Society for permission to quote from various unpublished manuscripts, and from The Life and Letters of Alexander Wilson by Clark Hunter, copyright © 1983 by the American Philosophical Society for its Memoirs series, volume 154.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Souder, William, 1949–

Under a wild sky : John James Audubon and the making of the Birds of America / William Souder.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-57131-923-4 (ebook)

1. Audubon, John James, 1785-1851. 2. Ornithologists—United States—Biography. 3. Audubon, John James, 1785–1851. Birds of America. I. Title.

QL31.A9S68 2014

598.092—dc23

[B]

2014013774

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