Writer and naturalist, born near Buenos Aires. He moved to England in 1869 and became a British subject in 1900. His early writings concerned the natural history of South America, but he is best known for the account of his rambles in the New Forest in Hampshire Days (1903), his romantic novel Green Mansions (1904), and the autobiographical Far Away and Long Ago (1918). His ornithological works include Birds in London (1898), and The Book of a Naturalist (1919). A bird sanctuary was created in his memory in Hyde Park, London (1925), and Epstein's sculpture Rima (a character from Green Mansions) erected there.
William Henry Hudson (August 4, 1841 – August 18, 1922) was an author, naturalist and ornithologist.
Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in Argentina. 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) and Afoot in England (1909), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and 1930s.
He was a founder member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.
His best known novel is Green Mansions (1904), and his best known and loved non-fiction is Far Away and Long Ago (1931).
In Argentina he is considered to belong to the national literature as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, the Spanish translation of his name. Travels and Adventures in the Banda Oriental, South America (1885) A Crystal Age (1887) Argentine Ornithology (1888) Fan-The Story of a Young Girl's Life (1892) as Henry Harford The Naturalist in la Plata (1892) Idle Days in Patagonia (1893) Birds in a Village (1893) Lost British Birds (1894) pamphlet British Birds (1895) Osprey; or, Egrets and Aigrettes (1896) Birds in London (1898) Nature in Downland (1900) Birds and Man (1901) El Ombu (1902) stories, later South American Sketches. Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs (1910) Adventures Among Birds (1913) Tales of the Pampas (1916) The Book of a Naturalist (1919) Birds in Town and Village (1919) Birds of La Plata (1920) two volumes Dead Man's Plack and An Old Thorn (1920) A Traveller in Little Things (1921) A Tired Traveller (1921) essay Seagulls In London. Lost British Birds (1923) Ralph Herne (1923) Men, Books and Birds (1925) The Disappointed Squirrel (1925) from The Book of a Naturalist. Cunninghame Graham (Golden Cockerel Press 1941) Tales of the Gauchos (1946) Letters on the ornithology of Buenos Ayres.(1951) edited by David W. Cunninghame Graham English Birds and Green Places: Selected Writings (1964) ISBN 0-575-07207-5 Birds of A Feather: Unpublished Letters of W.H.
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