Far Away and Long Ago is a beautiful memoir in which the author evokes the years of his childhood in Argentina. Page by page, Hudson tells of his walks through the pampas, the life of the gauchos, the colorful characters he met, the adventures he had among the animals and plants of the plains, his love for his mother and the illness that ended unexpectedly. with the lost paradise of childhood. Conrad, Ford, Lawrence, Chatwin and Theroux were his most ardent readers and admirers.

«One cannot say how this man achieves such effects; He writes with the same naturalness with which grass grows. It is as if a benevolent and subtle spirit whispered to him the phrases that he must put on paper. »

Joseph Conrad