William Henry Hudson
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William Henry Hudson (August 4, 1841 - August 18, 1922) was an Argentinan-British author, naturalist and ornithologist.
Hudson was born of US 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.
He is best known for the exotic romance Green Mansions (1904).
Works
- The Purple Land that England Lost. Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America (1885)
- A Crystal Age (1887)
- Aregentine Ornithology (1888)
- 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.
- Fan-The Story of a Young Girl's Life (1926) as HenryHarford
- Mary's Little Lamb (1929)
- South American Romances (1930) The Purple Land; Green Mansions; El Ombú
- 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
External link
- Project Gutenberg ebooks by William Henry Hudson (http://www.gutenberg.org/author/William_Henry_Hudson)de:William Henry Hudson