"Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest" by W. H. Hudson is a novel published in 1904. Abel, a young Venezuelan revolutionary, flees into the uncharted Guyana jungle where he encounters Rima, a mysterious forest-dwelling girl who communicates with birds in an unknown language. As Abel falls in love with her, he learns she seeks her origins among a lost people. Their quest leads them through treacherous terrain and reveals Rima's tragic uniqueness in a world that may not accept her existence. (This is an automatically generated summary.)