The purple land
Subtitle: being the narrative of one Richard Lamb's adventures in the Banda Orientál, in South America, as told by himself.
By: By W. H. Hudson.
Series: The collected works of W. H. Hudson
Publisher: J. M. Dent & sons, ltd.; E. P. Dutton & co.
Published: 1922
Place of publication: London; Toronto; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 366
Subjects: Uruguay -- Description and travel.
Description: Richard Lamb, a young Englishman, marries a teenage Argentinian girl, Paquita, without asking her father's permission, and is forced to flee to Uruguay with his bride. Lamb leaves his young wife with a relative while he sets off for eastern Uruguay to find work for himself. He soon becomes embroiled in adventures with the Uruguayan gauchos and romances with local women. Lamb unknowingly helps a rebel guerrilla general, Santa Coloma, escape from prison and joins his cause. However, the rebels are defeated in battle and Lamb has to flee in disguise. He helps Demetria, the daughter of an old rebel leader, escape from her persecutors and returns to Montevideo. Lamb, Paquita, Demetria and Santa Coloma evade their government pursuers by slipping away on a boat bound for Buenos Aires.
Notes: First pub. in 1885 under title: The purple land that England lost.

"Besides many small verbal corrections and changes, the deletion of some paragraphs and the insertion of a few new ones, I have omitted one entire chapter containing the Story of a piebald horse, recently reprinted in another book entitled El Ombú."