Green Mansions: a Romance of the Tropical Forest [Leather Bound]

W. H. Hudson (Author), Illustrated by Miguel Covarrubias (Illustrator)

Product Details

• Leather Bound
• Publisher: Easton Press; Collector's Library of Famous Editions edition (1972)
• ASIN: B000KXMR1C
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (29 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,077,133 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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39 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hauntingly Beautiful Tale of the Rain Foest, January 30, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Green Mansions (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) (Paperback)

I first read this when I was 13 or 14 and never forgot the story. I just reread it 40 years later while vacationing in Central America, the perfect place for a tale of the rain forest. The language is exquisite - not a quick read, for I wanted to absorb the beauty of the descriptions and details. I recommend this to anyone with an interest in nature, for it is not only a wonderful love story, but also a vivid description of the Venezuelan rain forest and its indigenous people.

30 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book really took me by surprise!, September 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Green Mansions (Dover Books on Literature & Drama) (Paperback)

If someone were to describe the entire feeling that explodes from this book, it would take an entire century. The emotions of the characters were undescribeable. They just poured right off the page. Not all love stories have page after page of adrenaline pumping literature. As the main character chases after his secret admirer, she leads him further and further into her invisible trap of love. Then the secret begins to unfold.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A beautiful, mystical story of adventure and love, October 21, 2002

By 

Rachel Watkins "Rachel Watkins" (Joshua, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Green Mansions (Oxford World's Classics) (Paperback)

The main male charachter has reason to leave civilization and travels far into South American jungles, meets with native tribes, and finds one which takes him in. They all seem happy with him until his curiosity gets the best of him, and he goes to a 'forbiden forest' so feared by this tribe he becomes ostricised for having been there.

In the second part of this book he befriends a mysterious girl who lives in the forest and seems more farie than human. He finds himself doing things for her which he would have never thought he would do for another person.

This is a clasic love story, intriguing, beautiful, and tragic. This was one of my first introductions to the classics of lliterature, and prompted me to find and read more of classic literature which has greatly enriched the scope of my reading experiences.