Part One THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN

1 Migration

2 "I Shall Sail on a Sheep"

3 Settling the Interior

4 Louisville in Kentucky

5 Alexander Wilson

6 By Flatboat to Ste. Genevieve

7 Birds in Flight

8 Flocking to Kentucky

9 The Bad Establishment

10 "Hopes Are Shy Birds"

 

Part Two AMERICA MY COUNTRY

11 Down the Mississippi

12 The Fair Incognito

13 Lessons to a Young Lady

14 Bayou Sarah

15 A New Start

16 Enthusiast or Lunatic

Interlude Audubon at Sea

 

Part Three THE BIRDS OF AMERICA

17 Liverpool

18 “I Will Publish This”

19 Into the Monster’s Mouth

20 “I Have Wished for Thee Every Day”

21 “I Will Sail for America”

22 A Man in a Hurry

23 Woods, Woods, Woods

24 The Varied Splendor of American Nature

25 Labrador

26 A Monumental Work of Art

27 Days of Deepest Sorrow

28 The Real Course of Nature’s Intentions

Envoy

 

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index