Hudson, W. H.
Hudson, W. H. , William Henry Hudson , ( 1841 – 1922 ),born near Buenos Aires, the son of poor American parents of English descent who had moved to the Argentine to farm. His education was haphazard and he ran wild on the family ranch. Rheumatic fever at 15 disabled him for the outdoor life he had intended, and his lifelong interest in birds intensified. He began to publish stories and articles on natural history in both English and Argentine journals, then in 1874 came to London, where he remained, often in poverty, for the rest of his life. He wrote prolifically, but until his last decade his work was little regarded. In 1885 he published The Purple Land, a series of strange and vivid stories set in South America, and Belloc expressed great admiration for The Crystal Age ( 1887 ), an account of a utopian land where the sex impulse has burned out and society is therefore at last stable and at peace. In...
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