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  • Written by: Ernest Hemingway
  • Narrated by: Josh Lucas
  • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)

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Green Hills of Africa

Written by: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Josh Lucas
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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.

©1935, 1963 Charles Scribner's Sons and Mary Hemingway. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form (P)2006 Simon and Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.

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Relaxing travel log from a time & place now lost.

In Hemingway's straightforward style he portrays an age (in what is now mondern Tanzania) of big game hunters that is now lost. Yet strangely near the end he predicts the ecological devastation foreigners would inflict on the unspoiled wilderness.

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