{"title":"William Souder","description":"William Souder is the author of three books, including \"Under a Wild Sky\" and \"On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson.\" He lives in Grant, MN.","products":[{"product_id":"under-a-wild-sky-john-james-audubon-and-the-making-of-the-birds-of-america-paperback","title":"Under a Wild Sky: John James Audubon and the Making of the Birds of America - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFINALIST FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn the century and a half since John James Audubon's death, his name has become synonymous with wildlife conservation and natural history. But few people know what a complicated figure he was--or the dramatic story behind \u003cem\u003eThe Birds of America\u003c\/em\u003e--as told in this \"superb introduction to the artist and the man\" (\u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Audubon, ornithological illustrations depicted scaled-down birds perched in static poses. Wheeling beneath storm-racked skies or ripping flesh from freshly killed prey, Audubon's life-size birds looked as if they might fly screeching off the page. The wildness in the images matched their maker--a self-taught painter and self-anointed aristocrat, who, with his buckskins and long hair, was both a hardened frontiersman and a cultured man of science.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTormented by ambiguities surrounding his birth, Audubon reinvented himself ceaselessly. But when he came east at thirty-eight--broke and desperate to find a publisher--he ran into a scientific establishment still wedded to convention and suspicious of the newcomer. It took Audubon fifteen years to prevail in both his project and his vision. How he triumphed and what drove him are the subjects of William Souder's gripping narrative, a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51433909125343,"sku":"9781571313553","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/U9aSc5uHI9781571313553.webp?v=1790020817"},{"product_id":"on-a-farther-shore-the-life-and-legacy-of-rachel-carson-paperback","title":"On a Farther Shore: The Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of 2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRachel Carson loved the ocean and wrote three books about its mysteries. But it was with her fourth book, \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e, that this unassuming biologist transformed our relationship with the natural world. \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring \u003c\/i\u003ewas a chilling indictment of DDT and other pesticides that until then had been hailed as safe and wondrously effective. It was Carson who sifted through all the evidence, documenting with alarming clarity the collateral damage to fish, birds, and other wildlife; revealing the effects of these new chemicals to be lasting, widespread, and lethal. \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e shocked the public and forced the government to take action, despite a withering attack on Carson from the chemicals industry. It awakened the world to the heedless contamination of the environment and eventually led to the establishment of the EPA and to the banning of DDT. By drawing frightening parallels between dangerous chemicals and the then-pervasive fallout from nuclear testing, Carson opened a fault line between the gentle ideal of conservation and the more urgent new concept of environmentalism.\u003cbr\u003e Elegantly written and meticulously researched, \u003ci\u003eOn a Farther Shore\u003c\/i\u003e reveals a shy yet passionate woman more at home in the natural world than in the literary one that embraced her. William Souder also writes sensitively of Carson's romantic friendship with Dorothy Freeman, and of Carson's death from cancer in 1964. This extraordinary new biography captures the essence of one of the great reformers of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51434525163743,"sku":"9780307462213","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/p0td-8la4x9780307462213.webp?v=1790027722"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/william-souder.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}