Far Away and Long Ago

by William Henry Hudson

24 chapters9h 34mEnglish1918

About this book

William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier. 'Far Away and Long Ago' is a classic memoir of a boy, fascinated by nature, on the Pampas in the 19th century.

Chapters (24)

1Earliest memories

1679

2My new home

1345

3Death of an old dog

3533

4The plantation

1923

5Aspects of the plain

1456

6Some bird adventures

1468

7My first visit to Buenos Aires

1426

8The tyrant's fall and what followed

2667

9Our neighbours at The Poplars

1328

10Our nearest English neighbour

1127

11A breeder of piebalds

810

12The head of a decayed house

1269

13A patriarch of the Pampas

711

14The dovecote

1146

15Serpent and child

1014

16A serpent mystery

1044

17A boy's animism

1293

18The new schoolmaster

1002

19Brothers

1283

20Birding in the marshes

938

21Wild-fowling adventures

1029

22Boyhood's end

1677

23A darkened life

1145

24Loss and gain

2140

Far Away and Long Ago

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Chapters (24)

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