GReen Mansions [Leather Bound]
by w. H. Hudson
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used, like new
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About This Item
Leather bound with gilt inlaid design to boards and spine. Raised bands on spine. Satinized pastedowns. Gilt edges. Quarto. 346pp. 'Notes from the Archives' insert.
Classic tale of a failed revolutionary who seeks refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the 'green mansions' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow... One of the acknowledged masters of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement.
First published in 1904 and a bestseller after its reissue a dozen years later, Green Mansions offers its readers a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man.
Synopsis
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.
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- Bookseller
- The Real Book Shop (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 20981
- Title
- GReen Mansions [Leather Bound]
- Author
- w. H. Hudson
- Book Condition
- New Used, like new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Connecticut.
- Date Published
- 1972
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Classic Fiction;
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- Edges
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- Raised Band(s)
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- Gilt
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- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...