Published in 1944 by in Random House of New York. Pictorial Hard Covers. Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. E. McKnight Kauffer (illustrator). Decorative hard covers, boxed print on spine in very good condition. Tips are bumped and with wear and there is some edge wear. Some light aging on the interior, otherwise clean and tight. Great art throughout. 303 numbered pages. A Romance of the Tropical Forest is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest-dwelling girl named Rima.