"Heitman's treatment of Audubon is one of the most sophisticated I've seen. He takes one episode from Audubon's life--an important one--and unfolds from that the whole exciting panorama of Audubon's life and art, a spectacular feat." -- Christoph Irmscher, editor of John James Audubon: Writings and Drawings
"Danny Heitman has a wonderful eye for detail, an ear for life's most resounding rhythms, and a heart ever open to understanding what makes us who we are. Across the years John James Audubon has found a friend in Mr. Heitman--a friend who tells this story beautifully." -- Bob Greene, National Public Radio Commentator and author of And You Know You Should Be Glad and Once Upon a Town
"I have no doubt that D. H. Lawrence--passionate advocate for 'spirit of place' in American literature--would have admired this book. Danny Heitman has entered a pivotal slice of John James Audubon's life on the brink of Birds of America, taking the fortunate reader along and re-awakening a vision of forests and wildlife around Oakley House in the sultry summer of 1821. The result is richly satisfying and artful: local history as poetic metaphor." -- Neil Baldwin, author of Edison: Inventing the Century and The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War
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