Приключения среди птиц

by William Henry Hudson, Иван Булва (Translator)

Уильям Генри Хадсон (1841-1922) - английский писатель и натуралист, родившийся в семье переселенцев и проведший первую половину жизни в Аргентине, написал более двадцати книг, как художественных, так и научно-популярных, но всегда вдохновленных природой и наблюдениями за ней. Защита птиц была главным делом жизни Хадсона - энергичного полевого исследователя, неутомимого орнитолога и страстного борца с потребительским отношением к окружающей среде, который еще в детстве понял, что клетки для животных - это пыточные в миниатюре. Книга "Приключения среди птиц" представляет собой сентиментальные, ироничные, приправленные фирменным британским юмором и очень поэтичные наблюдения за птицами на фоне живописных английских пейзажей. Размышляя о птицах и человеческой природе, Хадсон обращается к литературе, музыке, антропологии и географии, а также призывает к ответственности птицеловов, охотников и коллекционеров.

Genres: Birds, Nonfiction

264 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1913

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

[Nika · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an absolutely amazing an honest book about birds in England and South Amerika in XIX-XX centuries! Before reading this, I had no idea, how bad the persecution of birds was those days in England. It is hard to imagine, how hard it was for a sensitive bird loving soul such as Hudson refusing to buy and eat a shot wild goose and feeling painfuly for the nature. The book has bright and cheerful moments as well, and some very interesting observations of bird life, some of it changed today, some not. I wish I could show Hundon today's England, how popular are the concervation activities, how it changed and how a lot people care. I would say, thank you for putting your efforts in RSPB and protection of the birds!