William Henry Hudson

William Henry Hudson was born on the 4^th August 1841; he died on the 18^th August 1922. He was a writer, naturalist and ornithologist.

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Life and Work

William Henry Hudson was born in Quilmes, a borough of the greater Buenos Aires in the region of Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the son of Daniel Hudson. He spent his youth life studying the local flora and fauna and also observing both the human and natural drama on what then was referred to as lawless frontier.

Hudson resided in England in the year 1874. He manufactured a series of ornithological studies, including the Argentine Ornithology from 1888 to 1899 and the British Birds in the year 1895. He got popular with the books on the English country part, including Hampshire Day (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910).

William Henry Hudson was also one of the founding members of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

His best known novel is called Green Mansions, which he wrote in the year 1904. His best non-fiction novel is known as Far Away and Long Ago, written in the year 1918.

He is considered to be among the national literature in the country, Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, which is the Spanish version of his name. Several public places have been named after him.

Towards the end of his life, William Henry Hudson moved to Worthing in Sussex, England.

Works

Ø  The Purple Land that England Lost: Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America (1885)

Ø  A Crystal Age(1887)

Ø  Argentine Ornithology (1888)

Ø  Fan–The Story of a Young Girl's Life (1892), as Henry Harford

Ø  The Naturalist in la Plata (1892)

Ø  Idle Days in Patagonia (1893)

Ø  Birds in a Village (1893)

Ø  Lost British Birds (1894), pamphlet

Ø  British Birds (1895), with a chapter by Frank Evers Beddard

Ø  Osprey; or, Egrets and Aigrettes (1896)

Ø  Birds in London (1898)

Ø  Nature in Downland (1900)

Ø  Birds and Man (1901)

Ø  El Ombu (1902), stories; later South American Sketches

Ø  Hampshire Days (1903)

Ø  Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904)

Ø  A Little Boy Lost (1905)

Ø  Land's End. A Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall (1908)

Ø  Afoot in England (1909)

Ø  A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (1910)

Ø  Adventures Among Birds (1913)

Ø  Tales of the Pampas (1916)

Ø  Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life (1918)

Ø  The Book of a Naturalist (1919)

Ø  Birds in Town and Village (1919)

Ø  Birds of La Plata (1920) two volumes

Ø  Dead Man's Plack and An Old Thorn (1920)

Ø  A Traveller in Little Things (1921)

Ø  Tired Traveller (1921), essay

Ø  Seagulls In London. Why They Took To Coming To Town (1922), essay

Ø  Hind in Richmond Park (1922)

Ø  The Collected Works (1922–23), 24 volumes

Ø  153 Letters from W.H. Hudson (1923),

Ø  Rare Vanishing & Lost British Birds (1923)

Ø  Ralph Herne (1923)

Ø  Men, Books and Birds (1925)

Ø  The Disappointed Squirrel (1925)

Ø  Mary's Little Lamb (1929)

Ø  South American Romances (1930)

Ø  W.H. Hudson's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham 1941.

Ø  Tales of the Gauchos (1946)

Ø  Letters on the Ornithology of Buenos Ayres (1951),

Ø  Diary Concerning his Voyage from Buenos Aires to Southampton on the Ebro (1958)

Ø  Gauchos of the Pampas and Their Horses (1963), stories, with R.B. Cunninghame Graham

Ø  English Birds and Green Places: Selected Writings (1964)

Ø  Birds of A Feather: Unpublished Letters of W.H. Hudson (1981), edited by D. Shrubsall