Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway - Travel Writing & Memoir - Non Fiction Paperback

Details. Condition: Brand New. Format: Paperback. ISBN: 9780099460954. Publisher: Vintage Classics. Overview. Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's own true account of a month-long East African safari he undertook with his wife Pauline in December 1933. Blending memoir with masterful storytelling, it captures Hemingway's fascination with big-game hunting and his deep love of the wilderness. Widely regarded as a landmark of literary non-fiction, it remains one of the most vivid travel narratives of the twentieth century, essential reading for admirers of classic American prose.. About the Book. Written in the same spare, muscular prose that defines Hemingway's fiction, Green Hills of Africa is a first-person journal recounting the author's real-life safari across the plains and hill country of East Africa. Hemingway set out to write a wholly true book, one that could compete with the imaginative power of a novel while relating events exactly as they happened. The result is an intimate, often self-critical portrait of a man testing himself against nature, chasing kudu and rhino through unforgiving terrain, and grappling with rivalry, fatigue and the thrill of the hunt. Alongside the action, Hemingway weaves in reflections on writing, on other authors, and on what it means to live and work with integrity. His descriptions of the East African landscape are rendered with a naturalist's eye and a poet's economy, capturing both its beauty and the encroaching threat of human interference. First published in 1935 and reissued here in Vintage Classics' handsome paperback edition, the book endures as a fascinating window into Hemingway's own character and obsessions, as well as a snapshot of a vanished era of African exploration. Fans of adventure writing, travel memoir and Hemingway's celebrated style will find much to admire in this compact but richly detailed account.. Genuine first-person account from one of literature's most influential voices. Vivid, atmospheric de