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Million Pound Bird Book 《百万鸟书》

A profile of the artist and ornithologist John James Audobon, famous for painting and cataloguing the birds of North America.

Born in Haiti in 1785, John James Audobon was raised in France and to avoid the Napoleonic Wars he escaped to The United States in 1803, where he began to study birds. Unable to find a publisher for his Philadelphia book of Birds, he travelled to England where he found success and went on to publish subsequent books, the seven volumes of Birds of America featuring 435 hand-coloured lithographs of life-sized birds, and five volumes of Ornithological Biographies. Sold by subscription these books fetched $1,000 each.


这是约翰•詹姆斯•奥都本的人物简介。他是一位艺术家和鸟类学者，擅长于绘画和编目北美的鸟类。

1785年出生于海地的约翰•詹姆斯•奥都本在法国长大，为了躲避拿破仑发动的战争，他于1803年逃亡到了美国，在那里他开始了对鸟的研究。苦于找不到出版商出版他关于鸟的书，约翰•詹姆斯•奥都本来到英国，在那里他终于找到并出版了一系列的书籍。其中包括7册关于美国435种鸟的手绘彩色原码平版画，以及5册鸟类学的传记。这些书以1000美元每人的售价卖出。