Idle Days in Patagonia

At the bottom of the world, W. H. Hudson found the landscape that never left him. Recovering from an accident on the Rio Negro, he spent his days wandering Patagonia's gray plains, watching flamingos and eagles, listening to wind over endless grass, and thinking long thoughts about solitude, instinct, and why desolate places move us so deeply. Part travel memoir, part natural history, part meditation, it is Hudson at his most searching. For listeners drawn to wide horizons, this is the far south made intimate. Give your own idle days to it.