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Far Away and Long Ago A History of My Early Life
Author: W. H. Hudson

W.H. Hudson, in full William Henry Hudson (born August 4, 1841, near Buenos Aires, Argentina?died August 18, 1922, London, England), British author, naturalist, and ornithologist, best known for his exotic romances, especially Green Mansions. Hudson?s parents were originally New Englanders who took up sheep farming in Argentina. He spent his ch... more »ildhood?lovingly recalled in Far Away and Long Ago (1918)?freely roaming the pampas, studying the plant and animal life, and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier. After an illness at 15 permanently affected his health, he became introspective and studious; his reading of Charles Darwin?s Origin of Species, which confirmed his own observations of nature, had a particularly strong impact. After his parents? death, he led a wandering life. Little is known of this period or of his early years in England, where he settled in 1869 (and was naturalized in 1900). Poverty and ill-health may have occasioned his marriage in 1876 to a woman much older than himself. He and his wife lived precariously on the proceeds of two boardinghouses, until she inherited a house in the Bayswater section of London, where Hudson spent the rest of his life. His early books, romances with a South American setting, are weak in characterization but imbued with a brooding sense of nature?s power. Although Hudson?s reputation now rests chiefly on these novels, when published they attracted little attention. The first, The Purple Land that England Lost, 2 vol. (1885), was followed by several long short stories, collected in 1902 as El Ombú. His last romance, Green Mansions (1904), is the strange love story of Rima, a mysterious creature of the forest, half bird and half human. Rima, the best known of Hudson?s characters, is the subject of the statue by Jacob Epstein in the bird sanctuary erected in Hudson?s memory in Hyde Park, London, in 1925. The romances secured Hudson the friendship of many English men of letters, among them Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Edward Garnett, and George Gissing. His books on ornithological studies (Argentine Ornithology, 1888?89; British Birds, 1895; etc.) brought recognition from the statesman Sir Edward Grey, who procured him a state pension in 1901. He finally achieved fame with his books on the English countryside?Afoot in England (1909), A Shepherd?s Life (1910), Dead Man?s Plack (1920), A Traveller in Little Things (1921), and A Hind in Richmond Park (1922). By their detailed, imaginative descriptions, conveying the sensations of one who accepted nature in all its aspects, these works did much to foster the ?back-to-nature? movement of the 1920s and 1930s but were subsequently little read.

ISBN-13: 9781545577202
ISBN-10: 154557720X
Publication Date: 4/24/2017
Pages: 184
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