Chapter One: Guide-Books: An Introduction
Guide-books are so many that it seems probable we
have more than any other country—­possibly
more than all the rest of the universe toge...
Read more
Born in the Argentine, far from England's countryside and literary life, and only beginning to gain attention in his forties with The Purple Land that England Lost (1885), William Henry Hudson achieve...
Read more
It is not easy to categorize W. H. Hudson (as he preferred to be called). He was not primarily a fiction writer, yet his best known book, and perhaps his best book, was a novel, Green Mansions: A Roma...
Read more
W. H. Hudson is remembered almost exclusively for the novel Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904), which became his first substantial financial success after a writing career of mor...
Read more
Afoot in England
W(illiam) H(enry) Hudson