Green mansions : a romance of the tropical forest

by HUDSON, W[illiam] H[udson]

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New York: Basic Books. Very Good. 1944. Hard Cover. Illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer ; foreword by John Galsworthy. 303 pages, 10 color plates, decorated boards, very good. From the foreword: "I take up pen for this foreword with the fear of one who knows that he cannot do justice to his subject, and the trembling of one who would not, for a good deal, set down words unpleasing to the eye of him wrote 'Green Mansions', 'The Purple Land,' and all those other books which have meant so much to me. For of all living authors - now that Tolstoi has gone - I could least dispense with W.H. Hudson." From the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition: William Henry Hudson, 1841-1922, English author and naturalist, b. Buenos Aires of American parents. He spent his childhood on the pampas but developed a heart condition and finally emigrated to England in 1870. Hudson was a sensitive observer of nature, particularly of birds. In his books he describes plants and animals in a highly personal manner with great force and beauty. His best-known work, Green Mansions (1904), is a romance set in a South American jungle. Included among his other works are The Purple Land (1885), The Naturalist in La Plata (1892), A Shepherd's Life (1910), Far Away and Long Ago (1918), and A Hind in Richmond Park (1922). .

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