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03358aam a2200541 i 4500 001 9424B7F4214311EEBC7340321FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230713010558 008 720417s1944 nyu 000 1 eng d 035 $a (OCoLC)285981 040 $a MRC $b eng $e rda $c MRC $d PBE $d OCLCQ $d OCLCG $d NIALS $d YNG $d QBL $d QMC $d ZCU $d OKR $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d FXG $d OCLCO $d OCLCA $d PAU $d NLC $d OCLCQ $d TYC $d OCLCF $d OCLCQ $d BRL $d YBM $d OCL $d OCLCO $d KPV $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d YBM $d SILO 043 $a s------ 050 4 $a PR6015.U23 $b G7 1944 060 4 $a Hudson, W. 082 04 $a 823.8 100 1 $a Hudson, W. H. $q (William Henry), $d 1841-1922, $e author. 245 10 $a Green mansions : $b a romance of the tropical forest / $c by W.H. Hudson ; introduction by John Galsworthy, illustrated by E. McKnight Kauffer. 264 1 $a New York : $b Modern Library, $c [1944] 300 $a 254 pages ; $c 18 cm 490 1 $a The modern library of the world's best books 520 $a Based on the naturalist-author's extensive travels in South America, this is the romance of the bird girl, Rima. 520 $a A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the 'green mansions' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow ... One of the acknowledged masters of natural history writing, W.H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement. First published in 1904 and a bestseller after its reissue a dozen years later, Green Mansions offers its readers a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man. 650 0 $a Rain forests $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Wild women $v Fiction. 651 0 $a South America $v Fiction. 650 0 $a English fiction $y 20th century. 650 6 $a ForeÌts pluviales $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 6 $a Femmes sauvages $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 651 6 $a AmeÌrique du Sud $v Romans, nouvelles, etc. 650 6 $a Roman anglais $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 7 $a English fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00910817 650 7 $a Rain forests. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01089466 650 7 $a Wild women. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01175148 651 7 $a South America. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01244515 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Novels. $2 lcgft $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2015026020 655 7 $a Publishers' advertisements $z New York $z New York $y 1944. $2 rbgenr 655 7 $a Publishers' advertisements $z New York $z New York $y 1944. $2 rbmscv 700 1 $a Galsworthy, John, $d 1867-1933, $e writer of introduction. 700 1 $a Kauffer, E. McKnight $q (Edward McKnight), $d 1890-1954, $e illustrator. 776 08 $i Online version: $a Hudson, W.H. (William Henry), 1841-1922. $t Green mansions. $d New York, The Modern Library [1944] $w (OCoLC)656451102 830 0 $a Modern library of the world's best books. 941 $a 2 952 $l OUAX845 $d 20240816013859.0 952 $l PLAX964 $d 20240724090003.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9424B7F4214311EEBC7340321FECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IOHInitiate Another SILO Locator Search