William H. Hudson

William Henry Hudson (August 4, 1841 - August 18, 1922) was an Argentinan-British author, naturalist and ornithologist. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... August 4 is the 216th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (217th in leap years), with 149 days remaining. ... take you to calendar). ... August 18 is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Motto: En Unión y Libertad (English: In Union and Liberty) Anthem: Himno Nacional Argentino Capital Buenos Aires Largest city Buenos Aires Official languages Spanish Government President Democratic Republic Néstor Kirchner Independence - May Revolution - Declared - Recognised from Spain 25 May 1810 9 July 1816 in 1821 (by Portugal) Area... Natural history is an umbrella term for what are now usually viewed as a number of distinct scientific disciplines. ... Ornithology (from the Greek ornitha = chicken and logos = word/science) is the branch of biology concerned with the scientific study of birds. ...

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. Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: United States Wikinews has news related to this article: United States United States government CIA World Factbook Entry for United States House. ... In Botany a Flora (or Floræ) is a collective term for plant life and can also refer to a descriptive catalogue of the plants of any geographical area, geological period, etc. ... Fauna is a collective term for animal life. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... 1869 is a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1888 is a leap year starting on Sunday (click on link for calendar). ... 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1895 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1903 has the latest occurring solstices and equinoxes for 400 years, because the Gregorian calendar hasnt had a leap year for seven years or a century leap year since 1600. ... Sometimes referred to as the Jazz Age or primarily in North America and in Australia as the Roaring Twenties . In Europe it is sometimes refered to as the Golden Twenties. ... // Events and trends The 1930s were described as an abrupt shift to more radical lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the global depression. ...

He was a founder member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds. The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) is Europes largest wildlife conservation charity. ...

His best known novel is Green Mansions (1904), and his best known and loved non-fiction is Far Away and Long Ago (1931). Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is an exotic romance about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of Southeastern Venezuela, as told by William Henry Hudson. ... 1904 is a leap year starting on a Friday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In Argentina he is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish translation of his name. A town in Berazategui Partido and several other public places and institutions are named after him. Berazategui is a partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. ...

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

Nonesuch Press was a private press founded in 1922 in London by Francis Meynell, his wife Vera, and David Garnett. ... Edward Garnett (1868–1937) was an English writer, critic and a significant and personally generous literary editor, who was instrumental in getting D. H. Lawrences Sons and Lovers published. ... Robert Bontine Cunninghame-Graham was born Robert Bontine, on May 24, 1852. ... Golden Cockerel Press was a major English private press operating between 1920 and 1961. ...

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 links

• Works by William Henry Hudson at Project Gutenberg