Green Mansions

A failed revolution drives the hero of Hudson's classic novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of Venezuela, where he falls in love with the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. But their love is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow.. . . A master of natural history writing, Hudson offers 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.