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

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 ...