William Henry Hudson 
Green Mansions 
A Romance of the Tropical Forest

Green Mansions is an exotic and tragic romance about a young man who travels to Venezuela. He lives there with an Indian tribe, but his new-found life is shaken when he meets the "magical" forest-dweller, Rima. He is moved by her story and travels through the jungle with her and her grandfather to find the answers she doesn’t have about her past. But the presence of the young man has changed the Indian tribe forever, with vast and tragic consequences.