Il ragazzo smarrito

by William Henry Hudson

Spinto da una traboccante passione per la natura, il piccolo Martin si allontana dalla casa dei vecchi genitori fino a perdersi nel mondo vasto e misterioso delle pampas. Qui, dove sogno e realtà sembrano alternarsi e confondersi, incontrerà una galleria di personaggi bestie parlanti, uomini selvaggi, un pastore sordo, una fatata signora che gli farà da mamma, un vecchio gigante che lo proteggerà dai pericoli del mare... William Henry Hudson, scrittore amato da Hemingway e Borges, nutre il racconto con i ricordi della sua infanzia argentina. Vista con gli occhi di Martin alter ego dell'autore - la natura sudamericana appare trasfigurata dallo stupore infantile. Età di da 10 anni.

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Published August 1, 2015

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).