Tales of the Pampas

by William Henry Hudson

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253 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1916

About the author

William 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).

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

W. H. Hudson was born in Quilmes, Argentina, the son of settlers from the U.S. In Argentina, where he is known as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the author wrote a series of books, including autobiography (the magnificent Far Away and Long Ago), descriptions of nature (Idle Days in Patagonia and A Naturalist in La Plata, and fiction, including Tales of the Pampas. This last book is a collection of old legends and gauchos' tales which Hudson had noted down, the best and longest of which is the first story, entitled "El Ombú."

In 1869, Hudson settled in England, where he became well known as a naturalist, writing not only about Argentina, the memory of which stayed with him, but also of his adopted country. There, too, he was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

This is not the best of the Hudson books I have read, but it is worth a look -- particularly "El Ombú."

[David · Rating 5 out of 5]

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