W. H. Hudson: non-fiction collections

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The Bird Biographies Of W. H. Hudson Foreword: Jonathon Maslow Capra Press 1988 The bird biographies are extracts from Birds Of La Plata.

Birds and Green Places: A Selection From The Writing Of W. H. Hudson Selectors: P.E. Brown, P.H.T. Hartley Illustrations: Robert Gillmor Royal Society For The protection Of Birds 1964 Selectors' note: "W.H. Hudson wrote over twenty books, several of them about South America, where he was born. In making our selection we have confined ourselves to his descriptive writings of the English scene and its birds and beasts, insects and flowers. The books from which we have made our choice are Birds In A Village (1892), British Birds (1895), Birds In London (1899), Nature In Downland (1900), Birds And Man (1901), Hamphire Days (1903), The Land's End (1908), Afoot In England (1909), A Shepherd's Life (1910), Adventures Among Birds (1913), The Book Of A Naturalist (1918), A Traveller In Little Things (1921), and A Hind In Richmond Park, a book which Hudson had just completed when he died from a heart attack in London on August 18, 1922."

Birds Of La Plata W.H. Hudson Introduction: Richard Curle King Penguin 66 1954 Extracts from Birds Of La Plata.	Buy from amazon.co.uk

The Best of W. H. Hudson W. H. Hudson Editor: Odell Shepard E.P. Dutton & Co 1949

Birds of Wing and Other Wild Things: Selections from the Works of W.H.Hudson W. H. Hudson Editor: A.T. Quiller-Couch King's Treasuries Series J. M. Dent & Sons 1930

A Hudson Anthology W. H. Hudson Editor: Edward Garnett J. M. Dent & Sons 1924 381 page anthology of Hudson's writings.

Rare Vanishing & Lost British Birds W. H. Hudson 25 colour plates: H. Gronvold Editor: Linda Gardiner J. M. Dent & Sons 1923 Compiled from notes by W.H.Hudson and published a year after his death.