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Green Hills of Africa
Green Hills of Africa: The Hemingway Library Edition | Ernest Hemingway
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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. 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.
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Saknicole
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My husband is on a Hemingway kick. He picked this up while we were books shopping in Singapore a few days ago. We have a final day of pool reading planned today.

#singapore #modernism

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Dulcinella
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Mehso-so

The landscape is beautiful. Hemingway goes hunting. Someone else goes hunting. They discuss the hunt. They eat. They go for a ride. They hunt again. They meet someone. Someone goes hunting again etc....
In short: macho‘s hunting and eating/drinking.
BUT: Hemingway is such a great writer he even gets me hypnotized with a boring book:-)

erzascarletbookgasm Your review 😂👍 6y
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Mollyanna Your review is wonderful 😂 6y
Dulcinella @erzascarletbookgasm @Anna40 @Mollyanna Well, it was the only way to evoke my feelings on it:-) 6y
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Astroneman
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Pickpick

My beloved Hemingway never betrayed. A magnificent Safari throught the great Africa: warm, immense, cozy, wild. An unbridled hunt in search of the best prey. For Hemingway a place to live, a place to feel at home. #book #booklover #Hemingway #read #libro #libri #litsybook

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Astroneman

" A country is made to remain what we find it. We are the distruptors and after our death it will be also completely ruined, but it will always be there..."

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zsuzsanna_reads
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Bailedbailed

"It dated back to the time of Droopy, after I had come back from being ill in Nairobi and we have gone on a foot safari to hunt rhino in the forest." This is where I stopped reading. This picture is of a rhino I saw on my safari. It is a white rhino - black rhinos are critically endangered. I wonder which species Hemingway shot at so happily.

Daisydo I can't imagine killing one of these majestic animals. I'm so glad to see that you are having such an excellent adventure! 7y
DivineDiana I find it very difficult to appreciate Hemingway because of his love of killing large animals and hurting women. 7y
zsuzsanna_reads @DivineDiana not to mention being horribly rude about anyone he dislikes! 7y
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