Antoine Traisnel published new book, Capture, American Pursuits and the Making of a New Animal Condition

Antoine reveals how the drive to contain and record disappearing animals was a central feature and organizing pursuit of the nineteenth-century U.S. cultural canon. Capture offers a critical genealogy of the dominant representation of animals as elusive, precarious, and endangered that came to circulate widely in the nineteenth century.

Check out the manifold edtion here: https://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/capture

Antoine Traisnel is quoted in Gizmodo article about Audubon, see complete article here:
https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2020/09/john-james-audubon-was-never-good/