W.H. Hudson

W Henry Hudson (1841 - 1922) was an Argentinian-British author and naturalist. The son of Americans living in Argentina, he spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier. He settled in England in 1869. He produced a series of ornithological studies, and later achieved fame with his books on the English countryside, incl. Hampshire Days (1903) and Afoot in England (1909), which helped foster the back-to-nature movement of the 1920s and '30s. He is best known for the exotic romance Green Mansions (1904).