中文简介：

一位艺术家在美国的独特的个人旅程

十九世纪，鸟类学家和画家约翰·詹姆斯·奥杜邦着手创建了一个完整的北美鸟类图像记录，从路易斯安那州、佛罗里达群岛到圣劳伦斯湾和黄石河的悬崖。由此产生的作品《美国鸟类》是美国艺术一项不朽的成就。在16年的时间里，知名法国水彩画家Denis Clavreul用日记和数百幅原画记录了自己追随这位自然学家的旅程。

在奥杜邦的足迹中，Clavreul汇集了约250幅令人惊叹的水彩画，以及奥杜邦日记和他的几幅画中具有启发性的选段。通过手中的铅笔和画笔，Clavreul将他自然主义者的眼光和绘画技巧转向了奥杜邦在旅行中遇到的风景，以及奥杜邦在其艺术中描绘的动物和植物。作为一名充满激情的鸟类学家，Clavreul以罕见的灵巧手法勾勒出野外的鸟类，将它们生动地呈现在页面上。他记录了他与生活在大自然中的人们的一路相遇，其中许多人都热衷于保护大自然，他利用自己作为生物学家和艺术家的洞察力，将过去、现在和未来联系起来。

这是一次引人入胜且令人回味的旅程，邀请读者以奥杜邦的视角去看自然世界，用新的眼光去看它今天的样子。

英文简介：

An artist's uniquely personal journey across America

In the nineteenth century, ornithologist and painter John James Audubon set out to create a complete pictorial record of North American birdlife, traveling from Louisiana and the Florida Keys to the Gulf of Saint Lawrence and the cliffs of the Yellowstone River. The resulting work, The Birds of America, stands as a monumental achievement in American art. Over a period of sixteen years, recording his own journey in journals and hundreds of original paintings, renowned French watercolorist Denis Clavreul followed in the naturalist's footsteps.

In the Footsteps of Audubon brings together some 250 of Clavreul's stunning watercolors along with illuminating selections from Audubon's journals and several of his paintings. With pencil and brush in hand, Clavreul turns his naturalist's eye and painterly skill to the landscapes that Audubon encountered on his travels, and to the animals and plants that Audubon depicted in his art. A passionate ornithologist, Clavreul sketches birds in the wild with rare dexterity, bringing them vividly to life on the page. He documents his encounters along the way with people who live with nature, many of whom are passionately engaged in preserving it, drawing on his insights as both a biologist and an artist to connect the past, present, and future.

A spellbinding, richly evocative journey, In the Footsteps of Audubon is an invitation to see the natural world as Audubon saw it―and to see with new eyes what it has become today.