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21. W.H. Hudson: The Vision of Earth
$3.98
22. Green Mansions
$10.69
23. A Shepherd's Life
$49.99
24. Far Away and Long Ago
$20.78
25. Far Away And Long Ago: A Childhood
$13.36
26. Idle Days in Patagonia (Travellers,
$29.95
27. William Henry Hudson: Life, Literature,
 
28. William Henry Hudson
 
29. Far Away and Long Ago

21. W.H. Hudson: The Vision of Earth
by John Robert Hamilton
 Hardcover: 147 Pages (1946-01)
list price: US$25.00
Isbn: 0804610193
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22. Green Mansions
by W.H. Hudson
Paperback: 304 Pages (2007-09-04)
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Asin: 1585679488
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A failed revolutionary attempt drives the European Abel toseek refuge in the virgin forests of southwestern Venezuela. There, in the"green mansion" of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the lastsurvivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The bird-girl's ethereal presencecaptivates him completely, but the love that flowers between them is soonblighted by cruelty and sorrow.

A master of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an importantlink between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-centuryecological movement. First published in 1904 and still a best-seller afterits reissue a dozen years later, the book owes much of its popularity tothe mystic, near-religious feeling that pervades the story and to thebeauty of Rima's halting, poetic expressions. Exploring a love somewherebetween reality and imagination, Green Mansions offers its readers apoignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return tonature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage andcivilized man. ... Read more


23. A Shepherd's Life
by W. H. Hudson
Paperback: 300 Pages (2004-02-01)
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Asin: 0941936856
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars
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Originally published in England in 1910, this story of a shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, describes life in the south-central English county of Wiltshire before the turn of the 20th century. It is a charming picture of pastoral life that often seems idyllic and simple when viewed from the present. Caleb Bawcombe is a fictitious name thought to represent one James Lawes, and the town in the tale, Winterbourne Bishop, has been identified as the town of Martin. Friends, family, and acquaintances are interwoven in Caleb's story, and the interaction between humanity and nature is highlighted, capturing life at that specific time and place.
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Caleb was so taken with the pretty sight of all these little foxes, neighbours and playmates, that he went evening after evening to sit for an hour or longer watching them. One thing he witnessed which will perhaps be disbelieved by those who have not closely observed animals for themselves, and who still hold to the fable that all wild creatures are born with an inherited and instinctive knowledge and dread of their enemies. Rabbits swarmed at that spot, and he observed that when the old foxes were not about the young, half-grown rabbits would freely mix and play with the little foxes. ... Read more

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4-0 out of 5 stars Smatterings
I love the pieces that are included in this edition; however, they are merely smatterings taken from A Shepherd's Life.I had hoped the book I ordered was unabridged.That aside, W.H. Hudson was a masterfull writer and his prose, in most instances, magnificent and highly descriptive. ... Read more


24. Far Away and Long Ago
by W. H. Hudson
Paperback: 352 Pages (1997-01-01)
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Asin: 1558215468
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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4-0 out of 5 stars Childhood in the Pampas
Hudson is a wonderful writer, and this is a first hand account of his childhood in gaucho land, with invaluable glimpses of Buenos Aires at the setting of Rosas dictatorship and after.

5-0 out of 5 stars Simple pleasures are the best
"When I hear people say they have not found the world and life so agreeable or interesting as to be in love with it...I am apt to think they have never been properly alive nor seen with clear vision the world they think so meanly of...".

The author says it all. I picked up this book in a little Gloucester bookshop a few years ago, but I've finally just had a chance to read it in its entirety. What a Joy! It reminded me that the stresses and travails we encounter in our daily lives are so trivial at best, compared to the world we pass by everyday. The author's recollection of his boyhood on the Argentinian pampas and his adventures with snakes and birds and vizcachas made his words come alive, and I felt I was there with him. A treasure and one I would read to kids who have the gift of spirit in them, and to remind them that all of what he wrote is disappearing.

4-0 out of 5 stars A neglected masterpiece
We badly need to have this book once more available.Full of insights into the meaning of human life in nature, it also chronicles the passing of a virgin landscape in S.America with the coming of a predatory civilization.Hudson came of age with little schooling but endless hours of observing life (especially birds) and reading.His friends in England, where he went in his 30s, often wondered why he was habitually sad.This profound reminiscence explains why. ... Read more


25. Far Away And Long Ago: A Childhood in Argentina
by W. H. Hudson
Paperback: 244 Pages (2006-05-15)
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Asin: 0907871747
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars
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5-0 out of 5 stars Warmth
I became aware of this book through an article Hemingway wrote about books he would like to read twice.Well I can say that this book is best read in the winter, for it will melt the snow in puddles around your shoe, and warm your heart and soul at the same time.So make haste and buy it now, while the cold winds still blow.

5-0 out of 5 stars A Naturalist's Childhood on the Pampas
As we continue to pave over the beauties of our world and turn them into concrete wastelands, it is good to think back what life was like 150 years ago before we began the process of destruction in earnest.

W. H. Hudson, the naturalist, is revered in Argentina, where they refer to him as Guillermo Enrique Hudson and name streets and towns after him. In simple and stately prose, he writes about his boyhood as one of several sons in an English family that ran an estancia on the Pampas. Despite several failed attempts to school him, he managed to pick up one of the best educations available: by using his eyes and ears to study nature. His skill in language, which is considerable, came from reading his father's books on his own.

Whether writing about ombu trees, plovers, snakes, lightning storms, rheas (Argentinian ostriches), or his neighboring ranchers, Hudson brought a whole world to life with this book.

Hudson published FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO in 1917 while he was living in England -- around the same time that a Frenchman named Marcel Proust was following where that elusive taste of madeleines led him in REMEMBRANCE OF THINGS PAST, and around the same time that World War I was destroying a whole way of life. As he writes in the book:

"It is difficult, impossible I am told, for any one to recall his boyhood exactly as it was. It could not have been what it seems to the adult mind, since we cannot escape from what we are, however great our detachment may be; and in going back we must take our present selves with us: the mind has taken a different colour, and this is thrown back upon our past. The poet has reversed the order of things when he tells us that we come trailing clouds of glory, which melt away and are lost as we proceed on our journey. The truth is that unless we belong to the order of those who crystallize or lose their souls on their passage, the clouds gather about us as we proceed, and as cloud-compellers we travel on to the very end."

FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO is perhaps one of the greatest autobiographies ever written. Although I finished reading it several days ago, I am still feeling its afterglow and get this itch to re-read passages from it. This is, indeed, a book that will withstand several readings.

5-0 out of 5 stars Recreates the history, culture and geography of Argentina in a way few travel books accomplish
The Argentine pampas was a land of freedom and excitement: one literary figurehead W.H. Hudson describes in his memoir FAR AWAY & LONG AGO: A CHILDHOOD IN ARGENTINA. Descriptions of natural history and wildlife abound - and also of politics and interpersonal relationships of the times. You'd think FAR AWAY & LONG AGO would give insights into Hudson's childhood and life - and it does - but more importantly it recreates the history, culture and geography of Argentina in a way few travel books accomplish.

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5-0 out of 5 stars A masterful memoir of growing up
I could never make it through Hudson's fantasy __Green Mansions__, but __Far Away and Long Ago__ is another book altogether. Written when Hudson was approaching eighty, more than forty years after he had left Argentina for good, it's filled with the kind of longing you might expect. And even though he's a witness to the mid-nineteenth civil wars in Argentina or, more incredibly still, listens to travelers reciting poems by the eighteenth-century Spaniard Menéndez Valdés, Hudson seems modern; he makes other times, other places, far away and long ago, as he calls them, seem incredibly near.

Hudson's excellent short story "El Ombú" is also well worth seeking out. And, finally, while it's true Hudson left Argentina for England, the US also has some claim to him; it was from New England, after all, that, shortly before his birth, his American family left for Argentina. Just thought I'd make that clear, since people are always calling him "Anglo-Argentine". ... Read more


26. Idle Days in Patagonia (Travellers, Explorers & Pioneers Series)
by W.H. Hudson
Paperback: 155 Pages (2005-05-01)
list price: US$22.00 -- used & new: US$13.36
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Asin: 1845880242
Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars
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First published in 1893, W.H. Hudson's Idle Days in Patagonia is the narrative of his life's great adventure—a year in Patagonia. His time there climaxed 30 years as a naturalist, riding and roving in his native Argentina. His visit to this remote country fulfilled not only a private dream, but also a scientific mission. His collection of bird skins together with a brilliant report to the Zoological Society of London more than a century ago added greatly to his prestige as an ornithologist. In this book, Hudson's scientific interests harmonize perfectly with his extraordinary narrative and descriptive power. Its acute observation of nature and man, and its evocation of remote places and strange peoples mark him as a writer of keenness and distinction.
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2-0 out of 5 stars A Bit Disapointed
What I love about the writings of W. H. Hudson is his wonderful descriptions of the flora, fauna, and folklore of South America. But I suppose it is true what they say about idle minds. There is way too muchanthropological philosophizing in this book and it gets tedious. The romance with rugged naturalism is a bit much.

4-0 out of 5 stars Very beautiful rather than profound
This is a tranquil, contemplative work of reflection on the varieties of nature.Like the amazing bird that changes its song regularly when one of its species, for reasons unkown, 'decides' to create a new melody which the others then follow.Another thing to look out for is the sensation that Hudson's glasses has on the local indigenous population - mocking laughter turns to incredulous amazement.This book brought peace to my life, and hopefully increased my sensitivity to natural wonders all around me - everyday ones as well as the extraordinary. ... Read more


27. William Henry Hudson: Life, Literature, and Science
by Felipe Arocena
Paperback: 181 Pages (2003-07)
list price: US$35.00 -- used & new: US$29.95
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Asin: 0786416874
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This English translation of De Quilmes a Hyde Park. Las fronteras culturales en la vida y la obra de W. H. Hudson, which won the 2001 Annual Prize in Literature of Uruguay, analyzes how the richness of Hudson's work is linked to the overlapping of several cultures in his life. His work and life developed in the opposition of Romanticism to Enlightenment, wavering between literature and science.

Combining biographical details with analysis of his philosophy and works, the study follows Hudson's life from his childhood on a cattle farm in Argentina to his emigration to England in 1874, including the years he fought on the frontier between whites and indigenous populations and the years he spent traveling abroad. The study concludes with a bibliography of Hudson's books, poems, posthumously published works, and translations into Spanish, as well as critical studies of Hudson. ... Read more


28. William Henry Hudson
by John Towner Frederick
 Textbook Binding: Pages (1972-06)
list price: US$13.95
Isbn: 0805712763
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29. Far Away and Long Ago
 Hardcover: Pages (1968-06)

Isbn: 0685338681
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