Record Number: 33870

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'Darwin, writing in praise of the gaucho in his “Voyage of a Naturalist” says that if a gaucho cuts your throat he does it like a gentleman - even as a small boy I knew better'.

Century:

1850-1899, 1900-1945

Date:

Between 1860 and 1904

Country:

Argentina

Time

n/a

Place:

n/a

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

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Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

William Henry Hudson

Age:

Unknown

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

4 Aug 1841

Socio-Economic Group:

Professional / academic / merchant / farmer

Occupation:

Field naturalist, author

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

Argentina

Country of Experience:

Argentina

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

Charles Darwin

Title:

Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited During the Voyage of the HMS Beagle Round the World

Genre:

Autobiog / Diary, Geography / Travel, Natural history

Form of Text:

Print: Book

Publication Details

Definite edition under this title, John Murray, 1860. Not known as 'Voyage of the Beagle' until 1905.

Provenance

owned
almosty certainly owned a copy, in English (No Spanish trans. until 1921)

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Source Information:

Record ID:

33870

Source:

Print

Author:

William Henry Hudson

Editor:

n/a

Title:

Far Away and Long Ago: A History of my Early Life

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1918

Vol:

n/a

Page:

125

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

William Henry Hudson, Far Away and Long Ago: A History of my Early Life, (London, 1918), p. 125, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=33870, accessed: 19 February 2025

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Additional Comments:

It is highly likely that Hudson read this work several times. He had certainly first read 'The Origin of Species' as an adolescent and attacked Darwin in 1870 through a letter to the Zoological Society of London. See Appendix 1 in Ruth Tomalin, 'W. H. Hudson: A Biography' (Oxford: OUP, 1982).