Green Mansions A Romance of the Tropical Forest

The Heritage Press, 1972. The Heritage Press. 1972. With SANDGLASS. Cloth/green pattern over boards, green pattern/gold lettering. Very Good+/Very Good/Slip Case. A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western 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..The Heritage Press. 1972. With SANDGLASS. Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias, twenty-one drawings in pen and ink, and eight paintings in full, rich, tropical water-colors. Binding are boards covered with a light-green linen upon which an impression of the tropical forest is lithographed in dark green ink. Very Good ++,clean, no bumped corners, colors vibrant, no soiling, no writing. Slipcase, Very Good, clean and bright, slight scratch at bottom left. Great Gift. The Heritage Press. 1972. With SANDGLASS. Illutrated by Miguel Covarrubias, twenty-one drawings in pen and ink, and eight paintings in full, rich, tropical water-colors. Very Good ++,clean, no bumped corners,colors vibrant,no soiling, no writing. Binding are boards covered with a light-green linen upon which an impression of the tropical forest is lithographed in dark green ink. Slipcase,Very Good, clean and bright, slight scratch at bottom left. Great Gift.