Green Mansions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781585679485)

Lavishly illustrated with 60 drawings by Keith Henderson, W.H. Hudson's most famous novel, Green Mansions, is the book that sparked the nature conservation movement.

The inspiration for the movie starring Audrey Hepburn, Green Mansions stunningly recreates the untouched forests of South America with amazing detail.

After a failed revolution, Abel is forced to seek refuge in the virgin forests of southwestern Venezuela. There, in his "green mansion," Abel meets the wood-nymph Rima, the last of a reclusive aboriginal race. The bird-girl's ethereal presence captivates him completely, but the love that blossoms is soon darkened by cruelty and sorrow.

Exploring a love somewhere between reality and imagination, Green Mansions is a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man. A master of natural history writing, W.H. Hudson forms a link between 19th-century Romanticism and the 20th-century ecological movement. First published in 1904, Green Mansions owes much of its success to the mystic, near-religious feelings that pervade the story. Hudson's halting, poetic expressions combined with his descriptions of untouched, natural beauty make the novel as powerful a call back to nature today as it was more than 100 years ago.

Author: W. H. Hudson
ISBN-10: 1585679488
ISBN-13: 9781585679485
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Language: English
Published: 09/04/2007
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 7.98h x 5.52w x 0.79d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 7.8
Point Value: 15
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 19786 / Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest