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El Ombu

Author
William Henry Hudson
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
3 hours 31 minutes
ISBN
9781836100799
Published
16 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Argentine pampas
  • memory
  • loss
  • nostalgia
  • rural life
  • tyranny
  • family tragedy
  • legacy
  • isolation
  • symbolic tree

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Nicandro remembers the rise and fall of the El Ombú estate on the Argentine pampas, where Santos Ugarte's brutal power and family tragedy still haunt a solitary ombú tree. Spoken as when a lost world still asks what sorrow the plains refuse to forget.

Author

W. H. Hudson (1841–1922) wrote as if the natural world were speaking through him — birds, grasslands, forests, and the human longing to belong among them. Raised in Argentina and long resident in England, he brought New World memory into English nature writing with uncommon freshness.

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