Death of an old dog

Far Away and Long Ago

by William Henry HUDSON (1841 - 1922)

William Henry Hudson was an author, naturalist and ornithologist. Hudson was born of U.S. parents living in the Quilmes Partido in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina, where he spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier. 'Far Away and Long Ago' is a classic memoir of a boy, fascinated by nature, on the Pampas in the 19th century.

Listen next episodes of Far Away and Long Ago:
A boy's animism , A breeder of piebalds , A darkened life , A patriarch of the Pampas , A serpent mystery , Aspects of the plain , Birding in the marshes , Boyhood's end , Brothers , Loss and gain , My first visit to Buenos Aires , Our nearest English neighbour , Our neighbours at The Poplars , Serpent and child , Some bird adventures , The dovecote , The head of a decayed house , The new schoolmaster , The plantation , The tyrant's fall and what followed , Wild-fowling adventures