Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest
W. H. Hudson
Hardcover
(Modern Library, March 15, 1967)
On Rereading Hudson ...In its physical setting, Green Mansions is a faithful copy of nature throughout: not a tree, not a leaf that is in any way strange to actuality. It begins in a city called Georgetown, which you can find on any map of South America. .. The year is 1887. The protagonist is a man called Abel, a political refugee from the neighboring republic of Venezuela. The book is his personal account of his adventures, adventures of the spirit as well as the body, during the years that he wandered in the wilderness of southern Venezuela before reading Georgetown.