O cruel!
Michael Mason, 16 June 1983
W.H. Hudson: A Biography
by Ruth Tomalin.
Faber, 314 pp., £13.50, November 1982,0 571 10599 8 Show More
by Ruth Tomalin.
Faber, 314 pp., £13.50, November 1982,
“... land lost by England is Uruguay, given up by her in favour of the Falklands. The novel’s hero, Richard Lamb, at first much regrets the exchange of this ‘green world’ for ‘the desolate haunt of seals and penguins’. After he has roamed its fastnesses and met its half-wild inhabitants his views are different. To introduce the material prosperity and ... ”