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Recommended

The Birds of America

by John James Audubon · 1827

Nature & Environment · ranked #28 in category

Reviewed by the Book Verdict editorial team

The Audubon Society Baby Elephant Folio differs in a number of ways -- besides its dimensions -- from earlier editions of The Birds of America and from John James Audubon's original, massive Double-El

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The verdict

Category
Nature & Environment
First published
1827 · 1820s
Author
John James Audubon
Standing
Recommended

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Nature writing ranges from lyrical observation to urgent ecological argument. The best of it makes you see the natural world more clearly — and care about what is happening to it.

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