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Transcript: Profile: Life and legacy of John James Audubon
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LYNN NEARY
Talk of the Nation (NPR)
07-05-2004
Profile: Life and legacy of John James Audubon
Host: LYNN NEARY
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM
LYNN NEARY, host:
This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Lynn Neary in Washington.
His name immediately evokes what to many seems a curious hobby: bird-watching. But John James Audubon was a bird-watcher like no other. A colorful figure who was known to lie about the details of his own life, Audubon roamed through the back woods of America in the early 1800s, searching for a truth of nature, tracking down, studying and drawing the birds he found there. He collected those drawings in his book "The Birds of America," a four-volume set with life-size portraits of birds in ...