Previous SFF Author: Susan Hubbard
W.H. Hudson was born in Quilmes, Argentina, just south of Buenos Aires, in 1841. A famed naturalist, ornithologist and novelist, he is perhaps best known today as the author of the beloved classic Green Mansions. Hudson passed away in 1922, at the age of 81.
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In my recent review of Frank Aubrey’s lost-race novel The King of the Dead (1903), which transpires in the jungle depths of Brazil, I mentioned that the author, in an attempt to add realism to his descriptions of the terrain, had quoted liberally from works by the famed Argentinian writer William Henry Hudson. And well he might! Hudson at that point was 62 years old, and well known for being both a naturalist and ornithologist,
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Previous SFF Author: Susan Hubbard
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good points Mariion-. I actually had meant to talk about the ham radio but the review was getting long (I…
You got your review up before I could even write one. I loved this book--one of my favorite reads of…
Hey, any book with a ghost, a goat girl AND a vampire can't be all bad, right?
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