Green Mansions
A Romance of the Tropical Forest

Sigh… this is a novel that has lived in my memory as a beloved book from my late teenage years. I first stumbled across this book deep in the stacks of my university library while randomly browsing in order to take a break from proving some tedious, complicated mathematical theorem. Perhaps it was t......more

Woodland Nymph of Redemption Green Mansions is a re-read, of course I read it many years ago and also enjoyed the enchanting movie with Audrey Hepburn back then. There are some books that fail to touch the same chords they struck in me when I was younger and this was one of them. I still have to giv......more

A nice romantic and unusual story set in Victorian era in the forests of Venzuela. Interesting narrative, a bit difficult to get into, however it's worth it if you are patient. I am actually revising this review. After being done with this book after a few days, I realize that I am still thinking abo......more

This is an all-time nostalgic classic for me. I read it as a teenager, and I remember being so moved by the dreamlike quality of the prose. It is the definition of a book that haunts you long after you've finished.......more

In my recent review of Frank Aubrey's lost-race novel "The King of the Dead" (1903), which transpires in the jungle depths of Brazil, I mentioned that the author, in an attempt to add realism to his descriptions of the terrain, had quoted liberally from works by the famed Argentinian writer William......more