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Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
Books On Demand - EAN : 9782322535477
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EAN : 9782322535477
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- EAN13 : 9782322535477
- Réf. éditeur : 390760
- Editeur : Books On Demand
- Date Parution : 29 mars 2025
- Disponibilite : Disponible
- Nombre de pages : 182
- Format : H:210 mm L:148 mm E:13 mm
- Poids : 272gr
- Résumé : «Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life» by W.H. Hudson is a luminous naturalist memoir that transports readers to the Argentine pampas of the 1850s, where the author spent his extraordinary childhood. This 19th century autobiography, written when Hudson was seventy six, vibrates with youthful wonder as it reconstructs his formative years amid the untamed landscapes and colonial outposts of South America. The narrative unfolds through Hudson's dual lenses: the wide eyed boy discovering the pampas' teeming wildlife (from ovenbirds to pumas), and the seasoned naturalist reflecting on how these encounters shaped his life's work. Vignettes alternate between ecological observations like his account of riding through locust plagues and colonial life portraits: gaucho knife fights, British expatriate eccentricities, and indigenous horse tamers. A pivotal chapter details Hudson's near fatal childhood illness that awakened his preternatural sensitivity to nature's voices. What elevates this beyond typical nature writing is Hudson's unsentimental yet poetic style. His description of watching a flock of plovers "moving like a gray cloud" demonstrates the precise observation that later influenced conservationists. The memoir's second half darkens as Hudson witnesses the pampas' transformation by European settlers an early ecological lament that makes this a foundational text in environmental literature.
- Biographie : William Henry Hudson (1841.1922) was an Anglo-Argentine naturalist memoir writer whose pioneering observations of South American wildlife influenced both science and literature. Born to American parents in Quilmes (near Buenos Aires), his Victorian childhood on the pampas detailed in Far Away and Long Ago forged his lifelong passion for ornithology. After relocating to England in 1874, Hudson became a key figure in the nature writing movement, blending scientific rigor with lyrical prose in works like Green Mansions. His studies of bird migration for the British Museum laid groundwork for modern ecology, while his activism helped establish England's first bird protection laws. Though initially overlooked he supported himself by penning pulp fiction Hudson's 19th century autobiography eventually earned recognition from Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. Today, he's celebrated as a proto-environmentalist whose pampas recollections preserve lost ecosystems with the clarity of a Audubon painting.
