Green hills of Africa
(Book)
Published
New York : Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Touchstone ed.
Status
Sequim - Nonfiction (Adult)
799.2967 HEMINGW
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799.2967 HEMINGW
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Published
New York : Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1996.
Edition
1st Touchstone ed.
Physical Desc
295 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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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 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.