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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Far Away and Long Ago: A History of My Early Life
William Henry Hudson
351 pages~7 hr read50 chapters$4.99
A boy grew up on the wide Argentine plains, and never forgot a single bird or beast of it. W. H. Hudson recalls his early life on the pampas, from the plantation and the endless plain to his first bird adventures and the animals of the land. A luminous memoir of a naturalist's boyhood. Return to a wild, remembered world.
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Inside this book
50 chapters
- 1FAR AWAY AND LONG AGO
- 2CONTENTS
- 3CHAPTER I EARLIEST MEMORIES
- 4CHAPTER II MY NEW HOME
- 5CHAPTER III DEATH OF AN OLD DOG
- 6CHAPTER IV THE PLANTATION
- 7CHAPTER V ASPECTS OF THE PLAIN
- 8CHAPTER VI SOME BIRD ADVENTURES
- 9CHAPTER VII MY FIRST VISIT TO BUENOS AYRES
- 10CHAPTER VIII THE TYRANT'S FALL AND WHAT FOLLOWED
- 11CHAPTER IX OUR NEIGHBOURS AT THE POPLARS
- 12CHAPTER X OUR NEAREST ENGLISH NEIGHBOUR
- 13CHAPTER XI A BREEDER OF PIEBALDS
- 14CHAPTER XII THE HEAD OF A DECAYED HOUSE
- 15CHAPTER XIII A PATRIARCH OF THE PAMPAS
- 16CHAPTER XIV THE DOVECOTE
- 17CHAPTER XV SERPENT AND CHILD
- 18CHAPTER XVI A SERPENT MYSTERY
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