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Author: Ernest Hemingway

His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in -- and fascination with -- big-game...  more » hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. In examining the poetic grace of the chase, and the ferocity of the kill, Hemingway also looks inward, seeking to explain the lure of the hunt and the primal undercurrent that comes alive on the plains of Africa. Yet Green Hills of Africa is also an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape, and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.Hemingway's rich description of the beauty and strangeness of the land and his passion for the sport of hunting combine to give Green Hills of Africa the freshness and immediacy of a deeply felt personal experience that is the hallmark of the greatest travel writing.  « less

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ISBN-13: 9780684717999
ISBN-10: 0684717999
Publication Date: 1/1930
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Publisher: Collier Books
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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Bruce (treehuggernumberone) reviewed Green Hills of Africa (Scribner Classic) on 2/20/2007

Excellent story of Hemingway's trip to East Africa in 1933; it provided background for "The Snows of Kilamanjaro".

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