William Henry Hudson

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William Henry Hudson (1841.1922) was an Anglo-Argentine naturalist memoir writer whose pioneering observations of South American wildlife influenced both science and literature. Born to American parents in Quilmes (near Buenos Aires), his Victorian childhood on the pampas detailed in Far Away and Long Ago forged his lifelong passion for ornithology. After relocating to England in 1874, Hudson became a key figure in the nature writing movement, blending scientific rigor with lyrical prose in works like Green Mansions. His studies of bird migration for the British Museum laid groundwork for modern ecology, while his activism helped establish England's first bird protection laws. Though initially overlooked he supported himself by penning pulp fiction Hudson's 19th century autobiography eventually earned recognition from Conrad and Ford Madox Ford. Today, he's celebrated as a proto-environmentalist whose pampas recollections preserve lost ecosystems with the clarity of a Audubon painting.