Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest by W.H.Hudson w/ Intro by John Galsworthy, Published by Alfred A. Knopf 1922
A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of southwestern 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.
Measures:
7.75 x 5.25 x 1.25
Condition: 
Green cloth binding, tight spine, minor shelf rubbing, front cover has splatter markings, inner front cover has plate removal; pages are yellowed but excellent, back cover has an original price tag 'From the books of J.W.Robinson Co. Seventh & Grand Los Angeles'

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