In one of his most popular volumes of memoir, noted ornithologist William Henry Hudson relates his early childhood and adolescence in the wilds of Argentina. His idyllic youth was punctuated by a grave illness at the age of 15, and though his survival was in question for a period, Hudson ultimately recovered and went on to achieve many accomplishments both literary and scientific.
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- FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO
- Contents
- Chapter I - Earliest Memories
- Chapter II - My New Home
- Chapter III - Death of an Old Dog
- Chapter IV - The Plantation
- Chapter V - Aspects of the Plain
- Chapter VI - Some Bird Adventures
- Chapter VII - My First Visit to Buenos Ayres
- Chapter VIII - The Tyrant's Fall and What Followed
- Chapter IX - Our Neighbours at the Poplars
- Chapter X - Our Nearest English Neighbour
- Chapter XI - A Breeder of Piebalds
- Chapter XII - The Head of a Decayed House
- Chapter XIII - A Patriarch of the Pampas
- Chapter XIV - The Dovecote
- Chapter XV - Serpent and Child
- Chapter XVI - A Serpent Mystery
- Chapter XVII - A Boy's Animism
- Chapter XVIII - The New Schoolmaster
- Chapter XIX - Brothers
- Chapter XX - Birding in the Marshes
- Chapter XXI - Wild-Fowling Adventures
- Chapter XXII - Boyhood's End
- Chapter XXIII - A Darkened Life
- Chapter XXIV - Loss and Gain