Tales of the Pampas Author:W. H. Hudson "Hudson's work is a vision of natural beauty and of human life as it might be, quickened and sweetened by the sun and the wind and the rain, and by fellowship with all the other forms of life ... a very great writer ... the most valuable our Age has possessed." -- John Galsworthy — "Tales of the Pampas is perhaps the most passi... more »onate and revealing of all his books. These tales map not only the birds, beasts and men but the soul of the land.Here are the wild riders of the pampas with their chiripas sashed at the waist, kerchief headbands and bola-de-potros, colt-skin stockings on which are buckled huge iron spurs. Here are stories of sparkling action, satire, humor and pathos that capture ideally the picturesqueness of old time South American life."« less