Green Mansions (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: W. H. Hudson
- First Published: 1904
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy
- Time of Work: Nineteenth century
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Values, Memory, Mothers, Parents and children, Traveling or travelers, Nature, Supernatural, Nineteenth century, Extrasensory perception or powers, Native Americans or American Indians, Death or dying, Revenge, Guyana or Guyanese people, Jungles or rain forests, Adventure, Loneliness, Bereavement or grief, Hunting or hunters, South America or South Americans, Venezuela
- Locales: Venezuela, Georgetown, Guyana
Places Discussed
Ytaioa (ee-TI-oh-ah). Solitary hill situated in the savanna region west of Parahuari, whose lower slopes protect a densely forested oblong basin. In the heart of this forest—the “green mansions” of the novel’s title—the wanderer Abel finds a kind of natural paradise which contrasts as sharply with the Native American village in the neighboring Parahuari hills as with the turbulent civilization he had earlier fled. It is a vivid place, roofed by the crowns of tall trees and lavishly furnished with ferns, mosses, creepers, and shrubs. The shade of the...
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