John McEwen

In defence of John James Audubon 

The great artist and ornithologist who produced the magnificent Birds of America is now being shunned as a bird-slaughtering white supremacist

‘Black-backed Gull’, from The Birds of America, painted by Audubon in 1833. [Alamy]

  • Audubon at Sea: The Coastal & Transatlantic Adventures of John James Audubon

    edited by Christopher Irmscher and Richard J. King

    University of Chicago Press, pp. 334, £24

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