The Purple Land
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First published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The Anglo-Argentine naturalist distinguished himself both as one of the finest craftsmen... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1500192953
ISBN13:9781500192952
Release Date:June 2014
Publisher:Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Length:66 Pages
Weight:0.22 lbs.
Dimensions:0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Great Adventure
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
"Dangerous if read too late in life", Hemmingway.
Great Book
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
This is an excellent book if you can find it.
Poetic
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I have just read this book and I think I could place it among the ones I liked the most (together with Gerald Durrell's ones): what I prefered was the poetic that filled the whole book , in the descriptions of landscapes, and people, that poetic you can't find in modern writers.
Men selected by nature
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
A window into a time and place where men culture and tools were formed by a harsh natural selection process. The wide open range wild herds of cattle and horses a few men isolated from civilization. Henry Hudson was there, his first impressions are from the viewpoint of an educated Englishman examining barbarians. He then gets immersed in the environment and sees the deeper human experience and the effects of total freedom and self reliance on the character of men
An adventure worthy to have been told and now read
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
If you are a fan of turn-of-the-century literature as I am, you will find this narrative a good read. I had never heard nor read anything about this Hudson fellow until I recently began to read "The Sun Also Rises", which, as you may know, is Ernest Hemingway's first novel. Hemingway nonchalantly mentions Hudson and the travels of Lamb briefly in his story. I was intrigued as I gathered Hemingway himself had read the book and apparently liked it well enough to mention. Or perhaps I am mistaken. Regardless, this book is really as series of tales of adventures in the jungles of South America. You meet the natives, the food, the lifestyle and the beautiful girls (as you might expect; latino woman are notably lovely, in my experience). It should be noted, however, that the author, being a product of his times no doubt, is not particularly sensitive to political correctness.
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