"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."
-- ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. "I had quite a trip," the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement.
Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region's natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century's classic travelogues.
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Death is an old friend:
Hemingway was a depressive who had a special relationship with death. His excellent--essentially true--tale, 'The Green Hills of Africa' highlights this relationship. No, not because it the killing integral to hunting but because it highlights disappointment and, to a certain extent, selfishness. Hemingway is altogether human. He doesn't always bag the best trophy. His trophies are smaller or 'uglier' than those of his friend. It is a source of personal disappointment. Having hunted almost everwhere... more info
An African hunter's first book:
If you are planning a trip to Africa and don't read Hemingway you are doing yourself a great disservice.
Wonderful, classic read.:
This is one of Ernest Hemingways' best!(And there were some of his I did not like at all) You Must read this!
not the best of hemingway's:
some highlights: the swahili word "m'uzuri" meaning good or well reminds hemingway of missouri. such classical hemingway wry humor. also, "simba" is another swahili word that i had the pleasure of learning in this book, which reminds ME of the disney beloved character, of course. (and jason raize, who played the adult simba on broadway who died tragically too young--look him up, people!) the few pages in chapter one where hemingway met a guy in africa who has heard of hemingway from a lit magazine were... more info
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