Living in the Sound of the Wind by Jason Wilson - 9781472122056

Name: Living in the Sound of the Wind by Jason Wilson - 9781472122056
Brand: Little, Brown Book Group

Little, Brown Book Group

Living in the Sound of the WindA Personal Quest for W.H. Hudson, Naturalist and Writer from the River Plate\nAuthor(s): Jason Wilson\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group, United Kingdom\nImprint: Constable\nISBN-13: 9781472122056, 978-1472122056\nSynopsis\nW. H. Hudson was brought up on the pampas, where he learnt from gauchos about frontier life. After moving to London in 1874, Hudson lived in extreme poverty. Like his friend Joseph Conrad, Hudson was an exile, adapting to England. He never returned to Argentina.\n\nWilson unravels Hudsons English dream, his natural history rambles, and his work to protect birds. He remains both a complex witness to his homeland before mass immigration and to his England of the mind, before the urban sprawl.\n\nPraise for Jason Wilson: \n\nTireless, shrewd, erudite Jason Wilson, mixing hard fact and anthology, provides the perfect outfit of allusion and comparative experience - Jonathan Keates, Observer\n\nPut his treasure trove ih