Far Away and Long Ago
William Henry Hudson
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William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier. 'Far Away and Long Ago' is a classic memoir of a boy, fascinated by nature, on the Pampas in the 19th century. (9 hr 34 min)
Chapters
Earliest memories | 27:59 | Read by hefyd |
My new home | 22:25 | Read by Jenilee |
Death of an old dog | 58:53 | Read by Steven Rushing |
The plantation | 32:03 | Read by Lizzie Driver |
Aspects of the plain | 24:16 | Read by hefyd |
Some bird adventures | 24:28 | Read by J. M. Smallheer |
My first visit to Buenos Aires | 23:46 | Read by Marian Brown |
The tyrant's fall and what followed | 44:27 | Read by hefyd |
Our neighbours at The Poplars | 22:08 | Read by stepheather |
Our nearest English neighbour | 18:47 | Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014) |
A breeder of piebalds | 13:30 | Read by Christine Blachford |
The head of a decayed house | 21:09 | Read by Marian Brown |
A patriarch of the Pampas | 11:51 | Read by Christine Blachford |
The dovecote | 19:06 | Read by Christine Blachford |
Serpent and child | 16:54 | Read by Gary Gilberd |
A serpent mystery | 17:24 | Read by Gary Gilberd |
A boy's animism | 21:33 | Read by Gary Gilberd |
The new schoolmaster | 16:42 | Read by stepheather |
Brothers | 21:23 | Read by hefyd |
Birding in the marshes | 15:38 | Read by J. M. Smallheer |
Wild-fowling adventures | 17:09 | Read by Christine Blachford |
Boyhood's end | 27:57 | Read by hefyd |
A darkened life | 19:05 | Read by hefyd |
Loss and gain | 35:40 | Read by hefyd |
Reviews
A LibriVox Listener
Book is good but strong female American accent spoils everything! English readers please! And DO NOT RUSH THE READING!