Front matter
Reading edition
Transcriber's Note: Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.
EL OMBÚ
Uniform with this volume The Readers' Library. 50 volumes published. Full list of titles can be had from the Publishers Duckworth & Co. Covent Garden, London
El Ombú
by W. H. Hudson
Author of "Green Mansions," "The Purple Land," "A Crystal Age," "A Little Boy Lost"
Cada comarca en la tierra Tiene su rasgo prominente, Brazil tiene su sol ardiente, Minas de plata el Perú: Buenos Ayres—patria hermosa— Tiene su Pampa grandiosa; La Pampa tiene el Ombú.
LONDON DUCKWORTH & CO. 3 HENRIETTA STREET, COVENT GARDEN
First Published 1902. Reissued under the title of "South American Sketches" 1909 Published in the Readers Library 1920
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Printed in Great Britain by R. Folkard & Son, London
To my Friend
R. B. CUNNINGHAME GRAHAM
("Singularisimo escritor ingles")
Who has lived with and knows (even to the marrow as they would themselves say) the horsemen of the Pampas, and who alone of European writers has rendered something of the vanishing colour of that remote life.