The Purple Land by W. H. Hudson

"The Purple Land" by W. H. Hudson is a novel published in 1885. When young Englishman Richard Lamb elopes with an Argentinian girl without her father's consent, he flees to Uruguay seeking work. His journey plunges him into dangerous adventures with gauchos, rebel guerrillas, and romantic entanglements across the wild countryside. As Lamb navigates battles, escapes, and forbidden encounters, he gradually questions everything he believed about civilization, freedom, and where he truly belongs. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Hudson, W. H. (William Henry), 1841-1922
Title The Purple Land
Being the Narrative of One Richard Lamb's Adventures in The Banda Orientál, in South America, as Told By Himself
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purple_Land
Credits Text file produced by Juliet Sutherland, Eric Eldred, Charles
Franksand the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
HTML file produced by David Widger
Reading Level Reading ease score: 72.8 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Adventure stories
Subject British -- Uruguay -- Fiction
Subject Uruguay -- Fiction
Category Text
eBook-No. 7132
Release Date
Last Update Feb 26, 2021
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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