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Green Mansions is an exotic romance about a traveler to the Guyana jungle and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.

Now, Hudson, whether in a pure romance like this Green Mansions, or in that romantic piece of realism The Purple Land, or in books like Idle Days in Patagonia, Afoot in England, The Land's End, Adventures among Birds, A Shepherd's Life, and all his other nomadic records of communings... Read Full Overview

W.H. Hudson's most famous novel, Green Mansions, is the book that sparked the nature conservation movement.

W.H. Hudson's most famous novel, Green Mansions, is the book that sparked the nature conservation movement.

"The bird that would soar above the level plain of tradition and prejudice must have strong wings." - W.H. Hudson In Green Mansions , William H. Hudson transports readers to the enchanting depths of the South American rainforest, where Abel, a disillusioned European traveler,... Read Full Overview

A master of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement. First published in 1904, Green Mansions is a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to... Read Full Overview

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Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest dwelling girl named Rima.Prologue: An unnamed narrator tells how he befriended... Read Full Overview

First published in 1904, William Henry Hudson's "Green Mansions" is an exotic and romantic tale set in the wild jungles of Venezuela. Hudson was born in Argentina to American ex-patriots and spent most of his adult life in England, where he wrote books on ornithology, the... Read Full Overview

Lavishly illustrated with 60 drawings by Keith Henderson, W.H. Hudson's most famous novel, Green Mansions, is the book that sparked the nature conservation movement.