Hardback. Green cloth cover. Title in silver gilt on front cover. Edges and spine slightly sun faded. Corners lightly bumped. Remnant of a library bookplate on flyleaf. Pages otherwise clean and in excellent condition.Published by J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd., 1960.Memoir of a childhood spent in the Argentinian pampas during the 1840\'s. W. H. Hudson spent his youth studying the local flora and fauna and observing both natural and human dramas on what was then a lawless frontier, publishing his ornithological work in Proceedings of the Royal Zoological Society, initially in an English mingled with Spanish idioms.