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William Henry Hudson ( August 4 , 1841 - August 18 , 1922 ) was an Argentine - British author, Naturalist and Ornithologist .

Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in Argentina. He spent his youth studying the local Flora and Fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier. He settled in England in 1869 . 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 ) and '' Afoot In England '' (1909), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s .

He was a founder member of the Royal Society For The Protection Of Birds .

His best known novel is '' Green Mansions '' ( 1904 ), and his best known and loved non-fiction is ''Far Away and Long Ago'' (1931).

In Argentina he is considered to belong to the national literature as ''Guillermo Enrique Hudson'', the Spanish translation of his name. A town in Berazategui Partido and several other public places and institutions are named after him.


WORKS

  • The Purple Land that England Lost. Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America (1885)

  • A Crystal Age (1887)

  • Aregentine Ornithology (1888)

  • Fan-The Story of a Young Girl's Life (1892) as Henry Harford

  • The Naturalist in la Plata (1892)

  • Idle Days in Patagonia (1893)

  • Birds in a Village (1893)

  • Lost British Birds (1894) pamphlet

  • British Birds (1895)

  • Osprey; or, Egrets and Aigrettes (1896)

  • Birds in London (1898)

  • Nature in Downland (1900)

  • Birds and Man (1901)

  • El Ombu (1902) stories, later South American Sketches.

  • Hampshire Days (1903)

  • Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904)

  • A Little Boy Lost (1905)

  • Land's End. A Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall (1908)

  • Afoot in England (1909)

  • Shepherd's Life. Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (1910)

  • Adventures Among Birds (1913)

  • Tales of the Pampas (1916)

  • The Book of a Naturalist (1919)

  • Birds in Town and Village (1919)

  • Birds of La Plata (1920) two volumes

  • Dead Man's Plack and An Old Thorn (1920)

  • A Traveller in Little Things (1921)

  • A Tired Traveller (1921) essay

  • Seagulls In London. Why They Took To Coming To Town (1922) essay

  • Hind in Richmond Park (1922)

  • The Collected Works (1922-23) 24 volumes

  • 153 Letters from W.H. Hudson ( Nonesuch Press . 1923) edited by Edward Garnett

  • Rare Vanishing & Lost British Birds (1923)

  • Ralph Herne (1923)

  • Men, Books and Birds (1925)

  • The Disappointed Squirrel (1925) from The Book of a Naturalist.

  • Mary's Little Lamb (1929)

  • South American Romances (1930) The Purple Land; Green Mansions; El OmbĂș

  • Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life (1931)

  • W.H. Hudson's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham ( Golden Cockerel Press 1941)

  • Tales of the Gauchos (1946)

  • Letters on the ornithology of Buenos Ayres.(1951) edited by David W. Dewar

  • Diary Concerning his Voyage from Buenos Aires to Southampton on the Ebro (1958)

  • Gauchos of the Pampas and Their Horses (1963) stories, with R.B. Cunninghame Graham

  • English Birds and Green Places: Selected Writings (1964) ISBN 0575072075

  • Birds of A Feather: Unpublished Letters of W.H. Hudson (1981) edited by D. Shrubsall





REFERENCES

  • G. F. Wilson (1922, 1968) ''Bibliography of the Writings of W.H. Hudson''

  • Morley Roberts (1924) ''W. H. Hudson''

  • Robert Hamilton (1946) ''W. H. Hudson:The Vision of Earth''

  • John T. Frederick (1972) ''William Henry Hudson''

  • John R. Payne (1977) ''W. H. Hudson. a Bibliography''

  • D. Shrubsall (1978) ''W. H. Hudson, Writer and Naturalist''

  • Felipe Arocena (2003) ''William Henry Hudson: Life, Literature and Science''



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