W. H. Hudson recalls his childhood on an estancia on the pampas near Buenos Aires: the giant ombu tree by the house where he was born, the old sheep-dog, his first riding lessons, a drunken tutor, gauchos and strange neighbours, and the birds that first made him a naturalist. Death, cruelty and wonder are remembered with equal clarity.
One of the finest memoirs of childhood in English, for nature lovers and readers of the great autobiographies. Download the free EPUB.