Hudson was the son of working-class Anglo-Americans who had come to Argentina from Massachusetts to farm in the 1840's. During his early years he became quite an authority on ornithology living, as he did, in the wilds of Argentina and travelling around the neighboring countries of Brazil and Uruguay. He went to England and took a position as secretary to Chester Walters, a noted archaeologist of the time and, in 1876, married Emily Wingrave. Hudson's first book, The Purple Land That England Lost, was published in 1885 and was followed in 1887 by A Crystal Age. He continued to produce a number of works concerning ornithology over the next few years and, in 1904, published Green Mansions, for which he is probably best known by today's readers. The work considered by many to have been his best, was his autobiography, Far Away and Long Ago, which was published in 1918. |
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