# Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest

An audiobook by William Henry Hudson, read by LibriVox volunteers (9 h 23 min, English).

"Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest" is a narration of his life story by Abel, a Venezuelan, to a comrade. Once a wealthy young man, he meddled in politics to the extent of provoking a revolution... which failed. Escaping into the tropical forests of Guyana Abel takes up gold hunting, then journal-writing, and fails at both. Now with no aim for his life, he drifts until he takes up residence with a remote Indian tribe. Soon he learns of a wood the Indians avoid, as it is inhabited by a dangerous Daughter of the Didi, who, they say, slew one of them with magic. The fellow was in fact hit with a poisoned dart by accident, but his dying belief that she had caught the dart and hurled it at him survived him. Intrigued, Abel visits the wood repeatedly, and eventually encounters Rima. She indeed is something magical. She seems to have a pact with nature: animals don't molest her, she speaks in a melodious birdsong (as well as Spanish), and she even makes her garments of spider silk. When Abel is bitten by a venomous snake that acts protective of her, she and her "grandfather" Nuflo nurse Abel back to health. Both Abel and Rima are wonderments to each other, someone unlike…

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## Chapters

0. Prologue (10:55): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_00_hudson_64kb.mp3
1. Chapter 1 (36:30): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_01_hudson_64kb.mp3
2. Chapter 2 (23:22): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_02_hudson_64kb.mp3
3. Chapter 3 (21:37): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_03_hudson_64kb.mp3
4. Chapter 4 (13:36): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_04_hudson_64kb.mp3
5. Chapter 5 (25:59): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_05_hudson_64kb.mp3
6. Chapter 6 (25:58): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_06_hudson_64kb.mp3
7. Chapter 7 (20:14): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_07_hudson_64kb.mp3
8. Chapter 8 (34:40): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_08_hudson_64kb.mp3
9. Chapter 9 (18:41): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_09_hudson_64kb.mp3
10. Chapter 10 (26:28): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_10_hudson_64kb.mp3
11. Chapter 11 (32:07): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_11_hudson_64kb.mp3
12. Chapter 12 (28:09): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_12_hudson_64kb.mp3
13. Chapter 13 (23:44): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_13_hudson_64kb.mp3
14. Chapter 14 (13:11): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_14_hudson_64kb.mp3
15. Chapter 15 (29:58): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_15_hudson_64kb.mp3
16. Chapter 16 (16:36): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_16_hudson_64kb.mp3
17. Chapter 17 (34:52): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_17_hudson_64kb.mp3
18. Chapter 18 (18:32): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_18_hudson_64kb.mp3
19. Chapter 19 (29:34): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_19_hudson_64kb.mp3
20. Chapter 20 (33:06): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_20_hudson_64kb.mp3
21. Chapter 21 (30:33): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_21_hudson_64kb.mp3
22. Chapter 22 (14:20): https://archive.org/download/green_mansions_0808_librivox/greenmansions_22_hudson_64kb.mp3