Afoot in England (Stanfords Travel Classics)

Hudson, W. H.

ISBN 10: 1906780242 / ISBN 13: 9781906780241

Published by John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd, 2010

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Afoot in England (Stanfords Travel Classics)
• Publisher: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1906780242
• ISBN 13: 9781906780241
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

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Synopsis

Hudson is also an observant naturalist who describes the landscapes and the birds with an affectionate eye. (He was a founder member of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds). STANFORDS TRAVEL CLASSICS Stanfords Travel Classics feature some of the finest historical travel writing in the English language Hailing from both sides of the Atlantic, the authors included are as diverse as Edith Wharton, Henry James, Ernest Shackleton and Alfred Russel Wallace. Every title has been reset in a contemporary typeface, and has been printed to a high-quality production specification, to create a series that every lover of fine travel literature will want to collect and keep

About the Author

William Henry Hudson was born in Argentina, the son of American settlers from New England. He spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna, and, as a young man, travelled widely on horseback, visiting Brazil, Uruguay, and Patagonia.In 1869, at the age of 28, he settled in England, and began a new life as a wanderer and field naturalist.