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Living in the Sound of the Wind : A Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate, Paperback / softback Book

Living in the Sound of the Wind : A Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate Paperback / softback

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W. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life.

After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extreme poverty.

Like his friend Joseph Conrad, Hudson was an exile, adapting to England.

He never returned to Argentina. Wilson unravels Hudson’s English dream, his natural history rambles, and his work to protect birds.

He remains both a complex witness to his homeland before mass immigration and to his England of the mind, before the urban sprawl. Praise for Jason Wilson: Tireless, shrewd, erudite Jason Wilson, mixing hard fact and anthology, provides the perfect outfit of allusion and comparative experience - Jonathan Keates, ObserverPut his treasure trove into your pocket. - Anthony Sattin, Sunday TimesThe idea is so simple that it must be original.

This inaugural book might prove to be a landmark. - Nicholas Shakespeare, Daily Telegraph

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