Hudson, W.H The Purple Land that England Lost. Travels and Adventures in the BandaOriental, South America London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington, 1885 Praised by Borges, The Purple Land is a loosely structured memoir chronicling the wanderings of Richard Lamb in the Banda Orientál (now Uruguay). The book is populated with a cast of startling originality: very macho Gaucho revolutionaries, ardent and headstrong women, crazed patriarchs, beautiful children, renegade Britons (noble and ignoble). If this seems to be the stuff of latter-day Latin American novels, Hudson did it first, and wrote with a flair for describing landscapes and nature. The Purple Land is clearly the first work of magic realism, all the more remarkable for its Latin American setting, for Hudson's graceful prose, and for being published forty years before the Germans began to use the term First edition, First Issue of the author's first book, without half-titles but with the ads in Volume II dated October, 1885. 2 vols., 12mo. . Bound in 3/4 blue morocco and cloth. Fine Price: USD 2,500.00 other currencies   order no. 30515    inquire

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