Far away and long ago : a childhood in Argentina
/ W.H. Hudson ; with an afterword by Nicholas Shakespeare
- EasyRead Comfort edition
- Internet : Objective Systems , 2006.
- 366 p. ; 22 cm.
For at some period of a man's life; at all events of some lives; in some rare state of the mind, it is all at once revealed to him as by a miracle that nothing is ever blotted out. This book tells the story of the author's childhood and boyhood on the Argentine pampas. His was a warm and loving family in which the children had plenty of freedom to explore the natural world around them, since they were educated at home in their early years. His love of nature began at an early age and he became a careful observer of birds and other creatures.