Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #11700 in Books
• Published on: 1994-11-03
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Synopsis
This 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 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and 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.

About the Author
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.

Customer Reviews

The hills are very green the smell of Africa is enchanting!
The evocation of every patch of land, of every animal, every character and every part of every day is truely immense in this delightful journal from Hemingway. While even better than the pure descriptions of Africa in all her glory are the many intriguing off-shoots as the author explores everything from the flow of newly dumped waste in the Gulf Stream to the state of American literature. Add to this some fantastically lively dialogue and you know those pages are going to flick past in the blink of an eye. I do agree to some extent with the review below, highlighting that it's a journal of "drunkards" rambling through Africa and destroying animals whose grace is blatently apparent next to the tourists, thinking of themselves more as adventurers, however far that would be from the truth. Nevertheless, that's just a normative take on Hemingway and his chums and doesn't detract from the wonderful work of Hemingway and his pen. A great read and certainly a good and cheap alternative to taking an African safari holiday.

Green Hills of Africa
this is a great read about a exceptional lifestyle.
He was a well travelled man, and a great author, and wrote many classics. As far as travelling novels goes, this is a great pick.

Hemingway had the ability to really make you wish you was there, and I guess most of us Hemingway fans, long for the mountains of spain, fishing the lakes and drinking wine, or just wandering.

This book is no exception. Allthough im not that great hunting fan, and I disliked the glorification of hunting, I loved the
description of the african environment.

Sometimes you wish things was like the old days.
Just you and the nature. The longing of the wild.
Hemingway shows us this need, and even though shooting animals for the sport isn't my sort of fun, I really enjoyed this book.

An excellent book
...this is not an environmentally friendly, politically correct book; it is full of Hemingway's (true or perceived) self image of being a "real man". But that's the way Hemingway wrote and tried to live his life. If you don't appreciate that, if you can't place Hemingway's works into perspective, then read something else. For the others: this is a masterpiece. You live the story together with the author. His talent places you there: sweating, dusty, being excited with anticipation stalking game in the African bush. And you'll long to sit in the shade of a tree with a whisky too.