W. H. Hudson (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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W. H. Hudson was most prolific as an essayist; most of his essays record his observations as a field naturalist. He was particularly fascinated by bird life; between 1888 and 1889 he compiled and published, with the aid of Philip Lutley Sclater, Argentine Ornithology, which was later revised as Birds of La Plata (1920). He followed this with books entitled Birds in a Village (1893) and British Birds (1895). More general reflections on nature can be found in such of his books as Idle Days in Patagonia (1893) and Nature...

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