Finding W. H. Hudson

The Writer Who Came to Britain to Save the Birds

CONOR MARK JAMESON

The overdue, untold story of Hudson’s pioneering role as a campaigner, supporting the women who founded the RSPB. New insights on the unschooled immigrant writer-naturalist who dared to challenge the establishment.

A timely and revelatory recognition of the extraordinary contribution of a once-revered and now neglected champion of early conservation.

A century after W.H. Hudson’s death, this long-overdue tribute to perhaps our most significant writer-naturalist and wildlife campaigner traces his path through a dramatic and turbulent era: from his journey to Britain from Argentina in 1874 to the unveiling of a monument and bird sanctuary in his honour 50 years later in the heart of Hyde Park.

PRAISE FOR FINDING W. H. HUDSON

Jameson’s approach to Hudson’s life is a very personal one, as someone who shares Hudson’s passion for the natural world, and for saving it from the worst of humanity's impacts.

Dr Lachlan Munro, Biographer of Robert Louis Stevenson and R B Cunninghame Graham

This is an impressive, beautifully written and really enjoyable book - the perfect book if you love nature, literature and writers, and the fight for animal rights, with the brilliant writer Hudson at the centre of it. It's been pleasure to read. I'd only had a glimpse of Hudson from his Shepherd's Life but feel that now I really know him and can count him among my heroes.

Richard Hines, author of No Way but Gentlenesse

If you read one new nature book this year make sure it's this one Matthew Oates, naturalist and author of In Pursuit of Butterflies

I'm blown away! This guy was way ahead of his time and totally amazing; the original urban birder.

David Lindo, The Urban Birder

Biographical Note

Conor Mark Jameson, an award-winning writer and naturalist, is author of Silent Spring Revisited, Shrewdunnit and Looking for the Goshawk. He is a feature writer and has written for television and radio. He is Scots-Irish, Ugandan-born and lives in a corner of the forest in Cambridgeshire.

PUBLICATION DATE 01 August 2023

PUBLISHER

Pelagic Publishing

FORMAT | ISBN | PRICE

Pbk | 9781784273286 | £21.99 | $32.00 eBook available

SIZE

234 x 156 mm

PAGES

368pp

BIC SUBJECTS

BGT, PSVW6, RNKH

BISAC SUBJECTS

BIO030000, SCI070040, NAT011000

RIGHTS

World