Birds and Man

by William Henry Hudson

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Genres: Birds

120 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 27, 2011

About the author

William Henry Hudson was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. His works include Green Mansions (1904).

Argentines consider him to belong to their national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish version of his name. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing natural and human dramas on then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms. He settled in England during 1874. He produced a series of ornithological studies, including Argentine Ornithology (1888-1899) and British Birds (1895), and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, including Hampshire Days (1903), Afoot in England (1909) and A Shepherd's Life (1910). People best know his nonfiction in Far Away and Long Ago (1918). His other works include: The Purple Land (That England Lost) (1885), A Crystal Age (1887), The Naturalist in La Plata (1892), A Little Boy Lost (1905), Birds in Town and Village (1919), Dead Man's Plack and an Old Thorn (1920), and A Traveller in Little Things (1921).

Reviews

[Ngetich Kipruto · Rating 5 out of 5]

It may be because he sung
The yellow hummer in the rain
.....
And there he is whithin the rain,
And beats and beats his tune again,
Quite happy in himsef,

Whithin the heart of this great shower
He sits, as in a secret bower,
With curtains drawn about him
And part in duty, part in mirth,
He beats as if upon the earth
Rain cou;d mpt fall without him..

[Fried Geppetto · Rating 1 out of 5]

I got about 20% through and had to stop. Oh my godddd, this guy is soooo pretentious. Won’t shut up about how birds are only special if you’re a specific type of person who looks at and enjoys them in a certain way. He starts the book by talking about how awful taxidermy is, says it’s disrespectful and only useful/worthwile to have on display for a couple people. So stupid. Taxidermy is so interesting and makes seeing birds so accessible to a lot of people. Ok, birds look a lot better in life, duh. Nobody who is even vaguely interested in birds looks at taxidermy and takes it the exact same way they would seeing a live bird. This guy suuuucks. Grow up, birds are awesome, just enjoy them. Anyone can appreciate a bird however. This is a book for people who think theyre better than everyone else because they only care about their local birds and are able to see their true beauty while other people ignore them. Stupid. I’ll stare at a chickadee all day, who cares, crows are fun, i’ll also drive three hours to see a rare bird for my state. yay for every bird.