<DIV>A master of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement.<br> His most famous novel, <i>Green Mansions</i> begins deep in the virgin forests of southwestern Venezuela, where European Abel seeks refuge from war. Instead of peace and solitude in the ?green mansion,” he encounters the wood nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. Abel is quickly captivated by her ethereal presence, and a love somewhere between reality and imagination blossoms between them. However, cruelty and sorrow lie in wait on the horizon, and the couple’s romance is not fated to last forever.<br> First published in 1904 and still a best-seller after its reissue a dozen years later, the book owes much of its popularity to the mystic, near-religious feeling that pervades the story and to the beauty of Rima's halting, poetic expressions. This stunning new facsimile edition of the 1920s reissue features beautiful drawings by renowned illustrator Keith Henderson. An exquisite collector’s item, this is the definitive edition of a modern classic.</div>