William Henry Hudson

Green Mansions (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

William Henry Hudson was a well-respected author and naturalist. Hudson was born in Argentina to two English settlers and he would eventually settle in England where he produced many ornithological studies.  Hudson is now best remembered for books such as Green Mansions, A Crystal Age, and The Purple Land That England Lost.

Green Mansions, published in 1904, is an exotic romance novel set in a jungle of southeastern Venezuela.  The action centers around a traveler named Abel who encounters a bird-singing girl named Rima in the forest.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Charles River Editors
• Seitenzahl: 357
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781537821535
• Artikelnr.: 54274034

Autorenporträt

William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 - 18 August 1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist. Hudson was born in Quilmes, near Buenos Aires, Argentina.[a] He was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine née Kemble, United States settlers of English and Irish origin. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He had a special love of Patagonia. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888-1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Days (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s and was set in Wiltshire. Hudson's best-known novel is Green Mansions (1904), and his best-known non-fiction is Far Away and Long Ago (1918), which was made into a film.