Adventures Among Birds

William Henry Hudson (1841–1922) — an English writer and naturalist, born into a family of immigrants and spent the first half of his life in Argentina, wrote more than twenty books, both fictional and popular science, always inspired by nature and his observations of it. The protection of birds was Hudson's main life work — an energetic field researcher, tireless ornithologist, and passionate opponent of consumer attitudes towards the environment, who realized in childhood that cages for animals are miniature torture chambers. The book "Adventures Among Birds" presents sentimental, ironic, laced with trademark British humor, and very poetic observations of birds against the backdrop of picturesque English landscapes. Reflecting on birds and human nature, Hudson turns to literature, music, anthropology, and geography, as well as calling for responsibility among bird catchers, hunters, and collectors.