Hudson Birds Adventures
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https://doi.org/10.46553/LET.87.2023.p100-127Keywords:
W. H. Hudson, Adventure, Warblers, Birds and Literature, Avian StudiesAbstract
Hudson Birds Adventures
The article examines the notion of “adventure” in Hudson’s work in relation to birds. It distinguishes his experience in Argentina as a child and in his youth, with species dazzling due to their size and colouring, from his experience with the more modest species he came across, as an adult, in an English countryside which was victim to the relentless persecution by collectors and by landowners and gamekeepers’ intent on freeing their hunting grounds from predators. The experiences in rural England were adventures just as intense for Hudson, a field naturalist with exceptional powers of observation, the subtlest of ears for birdsong and an unusual ability to experience wonder. In its principal section, the article centres on the passion with which Hudson speaks in his books of warblers, the most anodine of bird families in their aspect and extremely difficult to spot, to examine his strategies as nature essayist and conservationist.
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