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William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922) was an author, naturalist, and ornithologist.

Hudson was born in the Quilmes, a borough (partido) of the greater Buenos Aires, in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, son of settlers of U.S. origin. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms.

Hudson settled in England during 1874. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888–1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Day (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s.

He was a founding member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

Hudson's best known novel is Green Mansions (1904), and his best known non-fiction is Far Away and Long Ago (1918).

In Argentina, Hudson is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. A town in Berazategui Partido and several other public places and institutions are named after him.

Towards the end of his life, Hudson moved to Worthing in Sussex, England. His grave is in Broadwater and Worthing Cemetery in Worthing.

[edit] WorksThe Purple Land that England Lost: Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America (1885)
A Crystal Age (1887)
Argentine Ornithology (1888)
Fan–The Story of a Young Girl's Life (1892), as Henry Harford
The Naturalist in la Plata (1892)
Idle Days in Patagonia (1893)
Birds in a Village (1893)
Lost British Birds (1894), pamphlet
British Birds (1895)
Osprey; or, Egrets and Aigrettes (1896)
Birds in London (1898)
Nature in Downland (1900)
Birds and Man (1901)
El Ombu (1902), stories; later South American Sketches
Hampshire Days (1903)
Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904)
A Little Boy Lost (1905)
Land's End. A Naturalist's Impressions in West Cornwall (1908)
Afoot in England (1909)
A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (1910)
Adventures Among Birds (1913)
Tales of the Pampas (1916)
The Book of a Naturalist (1919)
Birds in Town and Village (1919)
Birds of La Plata (1920) two volumes
Dead Man's Plack and An Old Thorn (1920)
A Traveller in Little Things (1921)
Tired Traveller (1921), essay
Seagulls In London. Why They Took To Coming To Town (1922), essay
Hind in Richmond Park (1922)
The Collected Works (1922–23), 24 volumes
153 Letters from W.H. Hudson (1923), edited by Edward Garnett
Rare Vanishing & Lost British Birds (1923)
Ralph Herne (1923)
Men, Books and Birds (1925)
The Disappointed Squirrel (1925) from The Book of a Naturalist
Mary's Little Lamb (1929)
South American Romances (1930) The Purple Land; Green Mansions; El Ombú
Far Away and Long Ago - A History of My Early Life (1918)
W.H. Hudson's Letters to R. B. Cunninghame Graham (Golden Cockerel Press 1941; about R. B. Cunninghame Graham)
Tales of the Gauchos (1946)
Letters on the Ornithology of Buenos Ayres (1951), edited by David W. Dewar
Diary Concerning his Voyage from Buenos Aires to Southampton on the Ebro (1958)
Gauchos of the Pampas and Their Horses (1963), stories, with R.B. Cunninghame Graham
English Birds and Green Places: Selected Writings (1964) ISBN 0-575-07207-5
Birds of A Feather: Unpublished Letters of W.H. Hudson (1981), edited by D. Shrubsall
[edit] ReferencesG. F. Wilson (1922, 1968) Bibliography of the Writings of W.H. Hudson
Morley Roberts (1924) W. H. Hudson
Robert Hamilton (1946) W. H. Hudson:The Vision of Earth
John T. Frederick (1972) William Henry Hudson
John R. Payne (1977) W. H. Hudson. a Bibliography
D. Shrubsall (1978) W. H. Hudson, Writer and Naturalist
Ruth Tomalin (1982) W. H. Hudson - a biography
Amy D. Ronner (1986) W. H. Hudson: The Man, The Novelist, The Naturalist
Felipe Arocena (2003) William Henry Hudson: Life, Literature and Science
[edit] External linksWorks by or about William Henry Hudson at Internet Archive (scanned books original editions color illustrated)
Works by William Henry Hudson at Project Gutenberg (plain text and HTML)
Tales of the Pampas (El Ombú and Other Stories), illustrated 1939.
William Henry Hudson at Find a Grave
Parque Ecológico Provincial Guillermo Enrique Hudson, Natal house of William Henry Hudson in Florencio Varela, Argentina
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