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Green Mansions: An Exile's Journey Into the Wilds of Venezuela and His Doomed Love for the Spirit of the Forest

Green Mansions: An Exile's Journey Into the Wilds of Venezuela and His Doomed Love for the Spirit of the Forest

Hudson, W. H.
Galsworthy, John

Paperback

FantasyClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 1585679488
ISBN13: 9781585679485
Publisher: Overlook Press
Published: Sep 4 2007
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.79 Width: 5.52 Depth: 7.98
Language: English

W.H. Hudson's most famous novel, Green Mansions, is the book that sparked the nature conservation movement.

A master of natural history writing, W.H. Hudson forms a link between 19th-century Romanticism and the 20th-century ecological movement.

First published in 1904, Green Mansions owes much of its success to the mystic, near-religious feelings that pervade the story. Hudson's halting, poetic expressions combined with his descriptions of untouched natural beauty make the novel as powerful a call back to nature today as it was more than 100 years ago.

After a failed revolution, Abel is forced to seek refuge in the virgin forests of southwestern Venezuela. There, in his green mansion, Abel meets the wood-nymph Rima, the last of a reclusive aboriginal race. The bird-girl's ethereal presence captivates him completely, but the love that blossoms is soon darkened by cruelty and sorrow.

Exploring a love somewhere between reality and imagination, Green Mansions is a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man.

The inspiration for the movie starring Audrey Hepburn, Green Mansions stunningly re-creates the untouched forests of South America with amazing detail.

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