Far Away and Long Ago (Wilder Places)
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558215468 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-01-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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ERHALL said One Star. A wonderful book but very badly type set.. Boffin said Simple pleasures are the best. "When I hear people say they have not found the world and life so agreeable or interesting as to be in love with itI am apt to think they have never been properly alive nor seen with clear vision the world they think so meanly of".The author says it all. I picked up this book in a little Gloucester bookshop a few years ago, but I've finally just had a chance to read it in its entirety. What a Joy! It reminded me that th. rhardin@eagle.cc.ukans.edu said A neglected masterpiece. We badly need to have this book once more available. Full of insights into the meaning of human life in nature, it also chronicles the passing of a virgin landscape in S.America with the coming of a predatory civilization. Hudson came of age with little schooling but endless hours of observing life (especially birds) and reading. His friends in England, where he went in his A neglected masterpiece We badly need to have this book once more available. Full of insights into the meaning of human life in nature, it also chronicles the passing of a virgin landscape in S.America with the coming of a predatory civilization. Hudson came of age with little schooling but endless hours of observing life (especially birds) and reading. His friends in England, where he went in his 30s, often wondered why he was habitually sad.. 0s, often wondered why he was habitually sad.
An Argentinean childhood memoir, among the most magical ever written.
Not only great natural history, Far Away and Long ago is one of the most magical childhood memoirs ever written. Hudson lay sick in bed in England when he was nearly eighty years old, his entire childhood returned to him so vividly that he could write in exact detail about these long-forgotten memories - starting with his earliest memories of the house in which he was born and finishing with the disastrous close of his childhood idyll at age fifteen when typhus struck.Far Away and Long Ago is told with such passion and candor that the grassy plains of Argentina, the gauchos, the birds and wildlife emerge from the pages. (5 1/2 X 8 1/4, 352 pages). From the Back CoverAs W. H