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Birds and Man
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- GenresBirds
120 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 27, 2011
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William Henry Hudson
352 books100 followersWilliam Henry Hudson was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. His works include
Green Mansions
(1904).
Argentines consider him to belong to their national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing natural and human dramas on then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He settled in England during 1874. 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), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910). People best know his nonfiction in Far Away and Long Ago (1918). His other works include: The Purple Land (That England Lost) (1885), A Crystal Age (1887), The Naturalist in La Plata (1892), A Little Boy Lost (1905), Birds in Town and Village (1919), Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn (1920), and A Traveller in Little Things (1921).
Argentines consider him to belong to their national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing natural and human dramas on then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He settled in England during 1874. 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), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910). People best know his nonfiction in Far Away and Long Ago (1918). His other works include: The Purple Land (That England Lost) (1885), A Crystal Age (1887), The Naturalist in La Plata (1892), A Little Boy Lost (1905), Birds in Town and Village (1919), Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn (1920), and A Traveller in Little Things (1921).
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May 2, 2020
It may be because he sung
The yellow hummer in the rain
.....
And there he is whithin the rain,
And beats and beats his tune again,
Quite happy in himsef,
Whithin the heart of this great shower
He sits, as in a secret bower,
With curtains drawn about him
And part in duty, part in mirth,
He beats as if upon the earth
Rain cou;d mpt fall without him..
The yellow hummer in the rain
.....
And there he is whithin the rain,
And beats and beats his tune again,
Quite happy in himsef,
Whithin the heart of this great shower
He sits, as in a secret bower,
With curtains drawn about him
And part in duty, part in mirth,
He beats as if upon the earth
Rain cou;d mpt fall without him..
Displaying 1 of 1 review