Author of Audiobooks - William Henry HUDSON
Far Away and Long Ago - William Henry HUDSON
Far Away and Long Ago - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Biography & Autobiography
William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both...
The Purple Land - William Henry HUDSON
The Purple Land - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Action & Adventure Fiction / Travel Fiction / Fictional Biographies & Memoirs
In W.H. Hudson’s first novel, an Englishman wandering on horseback across the pampas finds adventure and romance in Uruguay. The full title became: “The Purple Land: Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adventures in The Banda Oriental, in...
Idle Days in Patagonia - William Henry HUDSON
Idle Days in Patagonia - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Hudson traveled to Patagonia to study the birds, but shortly upon arrival accidentally shot himself in the knee, requiring a lengthy period of idleness to recover, hence the title of the book. It's not just a work of ornithology, but a personal...
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest - William Henry HUDSON
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Romance
"Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest" is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a wealthy young man, he meddled in politics to the extent of provoking a revolution... which failed. Escaping into the...
A Crystal Age - William Henry HUDSON
A Crystal Age - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Science Fiction
A Crystal Age is a utopian novel written by W. H. Hudson, first published in 1887. The book has been called a "significant S-F milestone" and has been noted for its anticipation of the "modern ecological mysticism" that would evolve a century later....
Idle Hours In A Library - William Henry HUDSON
Idle Hours In A Library - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Essays & Short Works / History
“[these essays on Shakespeare, Pepys, Restoration novels, and bohemianism]—the results of many hours of quiet but rather aimless browsing among books, and not of special investigations, undertaken with a view to definite scholastic ends. They are,...
A Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs - William Henry HUDSON
A Shepherd's Life; Impressions Of The South Wiltshire Downs - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Travel & Geography
Hudson wrote this classic work in 1910; it is admiringly mentioned by many other writers. It focuses on the memories of a head shepherd, Caleb Bawcombe, so it is concerned with the period of mid to late nineteenth century rural Wiltshire, a county...
Birds and Man - William Henry HUDSON
Birds and Man - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Animals
During the later part of his life Hudson lived in southern England, where he was involved very early on with the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). Birds and Man is a slow moving work where Hudson discusses his love of birds, and the...
The Famous Missions of California - William Henry HUDSON
The Famous Missions of California - William Henry HUDSON
- Author: William Henry HUDSON
- Genre: Modern (19th C)
Naturalist William Henry Hudson was born in Argentina of immigrant parents from England, and later settled there. He published books on ornithology and novels, and other books of far ranging interest. This is a short overview, which he calls a...