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Far Away and Long Ago
by W. H. Hudson (Introduction: Stephen J. Bodio)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: The Lyons Press (1997-01-01)
ISBN: 1558215468
EAN: 9781558215467
Dewey Decimal #: 828.809
Paperback: 352 pages
Edition: 1st
SKU: 080617431
Condition: Fine
Comments: 1558215468 New, never read! May have minor wear on cover. New, never read, may have minor wear on cover.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
[F]or at some period of a man¿s life¿at all events of some lives¿in some rare state of the mind it is all at once revealed to him as by a miracle that nothing is ever blotted out.
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Customer Reviews
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Childhood in the Pampas
Rating  (4)
Date: 2002-12-18
8 out of 9 customers found this reveiw helpful
Hudson is a wonderful writer, and this is a first hand account of his childhood in gaucho land, with invaluable glimpses of Buenos Aires at the setting of Rosas dictatorship and after.
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Simple pleasures are the best
Rating  (5)
Date: 2000-11-02
16 out of 17 customers found this reveiw helpful
"When I hear people say they have not found the world and life so agreeable or interesting as to be in love with it...I am apt to think they have never been properly alive nor seen with clear vision the world they think so meanly of...".The author says it all. I picked up this book in a little Gloucester bookshop a few years ago, but I've finally just had a chance to read it in its entirety. What a Joy! It reminded me that the stresses and travails we encounter in our daily lives are so trivial at best, compared to the world we pass by everyday. The author's recollection of his boyhood on the Argentinian pampas and his adventures with snakes and birds and vizcachas made his words come alive, and I felt I was there with him. A treasure and one I would read to kids who have the gift of spirit in them, and to remind them that all of what he wrote is disappearing.
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A neglected masterpiece
Rating (4)
Date: 1998-01-17
19 out of 20 customers found this reveiw helpful
We badly need to have this book once more available. Full of insights into the meaning of human life in nature, it also chronicles the passing of a virgin landscape in S.America with the coming of a predatory civilization. Hudson came of age with little schooling but endless hours of observing life (especially birds) and reading. His friends in England, where he went in his 30s, often wondered why he was habitually sad. This profound reminiscence explains why.
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