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Book SynopsisTrade Review"These excellent selections are a wonderful reminder of why Audubon's writing deserves to be more widely read. Audubon at Sea is a delightful, captivating book, one that ranges to different regions and seasons, and features not only birds but fish, marine mammals, and many passages of interest concerning fishing, hunting, and collecting practices. Irmscher and King's expertise is impressive, and their introductions are helpful, informative, and beautifully written. The notes section is also truly remarkable: extremely well-informed, instructive, and detailed. This is a superb read." -- Michael P. Branch, University of Nevada, Reno, author of "On the Trail of the Jackalope"
Table of ContentsForeword by Subhankar Banerjee
Sources for the Texts
Introduction
I. Journal of a Sea Voyage from New Orleans to Liverpool aboard the Delos (1826)
II. Ornithological Biography (1831–1839)
Southern Waters
A Long Calm at Sea
The Florida Keys
The Florida Keys (Part 2)
The Brown Pelican
and The Mangrove
The Turtlers
Black Skimmer or Razor-billed Shearwater
Death of a Pirate
The Frigate Pelican
The Sooty Tern
The Wreckers of Florida
American Flamingo
Wilson’s Plover
St John’s River in Florida
Mid-Atlantic Waters
The American Oyster-Catcher
The Fish Hawk or Osprey
and The Weak Fish
Little Guillemot
The Long-billed Curlew
Western Waters
Black-footed Albatross
Gigantic Fulmar
New England and Atlantic Canada
The Bay of Fundy
Common Gannet
The Eggers of Labrador
The Foolish Guillemot
The Great Black-backed Gull
The Wandering Shearwater
Cod-Fishing
The Razor-billed Auk
The Common Cormorant
The Puffin
Great Auk
Wilson’s Petrel
III. Journal of a Collecting Voyage from Eastport to Labrador aboard the Ripley (1833)
Coda
Acknowledgments
Index
