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Author: W. H. Hudson
First Published: 1904
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Fantasy
Time of Work: Nineteenth century
Setting: South American jungles
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

Abel Guevez de Argensola (ah- BEHL geh-VEHS deh ahr-gehn-SOH- lah), a Venezuelan living in Georgetown, British Guiana. Uninterested in politics, sport, or commerce, he loves the world of nature and the spirit. As a youth he was involved in an abortive Caracas political conspiracy. Fleeing for his life, he disappeared into the Guayana wilderness and lived for some months among the Indians and with Nuflo and Rima. Loving Rima with an etherealized but passionate love, he (with Nuflo) accompanied her in a fruitless search for her mother’s people. Maddened...

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