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Far Away and Long Ago

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(4,312 Sterne; 8 Bewertungen)

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. (9 hr 34 min)

Chapters

Earliest memories

27:59

Read by hefyd

My new home

22:25

Read by Jenilee

Death of an old dog

58:53

Read by Steven Rushing

The plantation

32:03

Read by Lizzie Driver

Aspects of the plain

24:16

Read by hefyd

Some bird adventures

24:28

Read by J. M. Smallheer

My first visit to Buenos Aires

23:46

Read by Marian Brown

The tyrant's fall and what followed

44:27

Read by hefyd

Our neighbours at The Poplars

22:08

Read by stepheather

Our nearest English neighbour

18:47

Read by Lucy Burgoyne (1950 - 2014)

A breeder of piebalds

13:30

Read by Christine Blachford

The head of a decayed house

21:09

Read by Marian Brown

A patriarch of the Pampas

11:51

Read by Christine Blachford

The dovecote

19:06

Read by Christine Blachford

Serpent and child

16:54

Read by Gary Gilberd

A serpent mystery

17:24

Read by Gary Gilberd

A boy's animism

21:33

Read by Gary Gilberd

The new schoolmaster

16:42

Read by stepheather

Brothers

21:23

Read by hefyd

Birding in the marshes

15:38

Read by J. M. Smallheer

Wild-fowling adventures

17:09

Read by Christine Blachford

Boyhood's end

27:57

Read by hefyd

A darkened life

19:05

Read by hefyd

Loss and gain

35:40

Read by hefyd

Bewertungen

(2,5 Sterne)

Book is good but strong female American accent spoils everything! English readers please! And DO NOT RUSH THE READING!