Green Mansions
Green Mansions,a novel by W. H. Hudson , published 1904 .
The young hero, Abel, fleeing from persecution in Venezuela, travels into the vast jungle (the ‘green mansions’). Eventually he settles with the tribe of Runi, an Indian friend. Finding that one part of the forest is mysteriously forbidden, he investigates and becomes haunted by the recurring cry, half bird, half human, which terrifies the Indians. He finds the caller, Rima, a wild and beautiful girl of the woods, and meets her grandfather, Nuflo. Abel and Rima fall in love, and the three of them set out on a long journey to find her mother. They fail, and impetuously Rima returns home first; when Nuflo and Abel arrive they discover that the Indians have burned her on a great pyre built round a forest tree. In anguish Abel kills Runi and his friends, and makes a long, desolate journey, carrying Rima's ashes, back to the coast. The animistic overtones of the book, and its...
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