Heritage Press, NY, 1944 (copyright). Illustrated w/ color frontis and 7 color plates by Miguel Covarrubias. Green cloth, illustrated color end-papers, gilt illustrated cover & letters. Minor spine bumping, hd & ft, corners sharp. Previous seller's price in black marker, inside front board; no other markings. Gilt somewhat dulled, but intact and legible. Tightly bound. DJ is chipped & torn, mainly along top & bottom near spine. Minor blemishes here & there. Heritage Reprint price of $1.95, bottom of front flap. 346 pages.
William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.
He was born in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine, U.S. settlers of English and Irish origin.
He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society. He had a special love of Patagonia.
Hudson settled in England during 1874, where 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 Day (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement in England of the 1920s and 1930s.
He was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
Hudson's best known novel is Green Mansions (1904), and his best known non-fiction is Far Away and Long Ago (1918). Ernest Hemingway famously referred to Hudson's book The Purple Land (1885) in his novel The Sun Also Rises, and also referred to Hudson's Far Away and Long Ago (1918) in his posthumous novel The Garden of Eden (1986).
Towards the end of his life, Hudson moved to Worthing in Sussex, England. His grave is in Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery in Worthing.
