GREEN MANSIONS: A ROMANCE OF THE TROPICAL FOREST

The is a first edition from the classics series published by International Collectors Library in 1970.

Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest is a 1904 novel by the prolific Anglo-Argentinian writer William Henry Hudson (1841-1922).

A failed revolutionary attempt drives the hero of Hudson's novel to seek refuge in the primeval forests of south-western Venezuela. There, in the 'green mansions' of the title, Abel encounters the wood-nymph Rima, the last survivor of a mysterious aboriginal race. The love that flowers between them is soon overshadowed by cruelty and sorrow.

One of the acknowledged masters of natural history writing, W. H. Hudson forms an important link between nineteenth-century Romanticism and the twentieth-century ecological movement. First published in 1904 and a bestseller after its reissue a dozen years later, Green Mansions offers its readers a poignant meditation on the loss of wilderness, the dream of a return to nature, and the bitter reality of the encounter between savage and civilized man.
It is now best-known for the 1959 film adaptation starring Audrey Hepburn and Anthony Perkins.

This is a lovely book. It is hunter green leatherette. It has a gilt design on the cover and spine and a bound-in silk bookmark, which remains undisturbed.

As you can see, there is some shelf-wear to the spine, as if it was moved around a lot.

Other than that, it's in absolutely pristine condition. It is unopened and unread.

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