Hemingway Library Edition: Green Hills of Africa : The Hemingway Library Edition (Hardcover)

from JBreedlove

Self-involved Hemingway at his best. Great descriptive sense of place writing is that sharp style that seems easy but that he makes almost sublime. It must be from his time as a newspaper reporter. I read this on the heels of the KBurns documentary.

from nandadevi

Against a background of readings about wildlife research and conservation in East Africa, an account of Hemingway blasting his way through the phylogenetic tree should sit uneasily with me. But as is apparent in other accounts, the impetus for conservation has often come from, not despite of, wil...

from laytonwoman3rd

Hemingway's account of his first African safari. The one where he got dysentery, not the one where he survived two plane crashes. I enjoyed reading it, although I am not a fan of Hemingway. It went fairly quickly. I never once thought to myself---"Ernest, you macho jerk", even when he was cursing...

from herschelian

Written in the early 1930s, this is one of Hemingway's best works in my opinion. It is a lyrical account of a month he and his wife spent on safari in East Africa big-game hunting. His descriptions of the land, the bush, the animals and the people are really superb, and though it seems a little d...

from alanteder

You have to keep a strong hold on your Freud-dar while reading this "absolutely true book" about Hemingway's late-1933/early 1934 African safari trek in Kenya with his then-wife Pauline Pfeiffer (called "P.O.M.", standing for "Poor Old Mama" in the book), his friend Charles Thompson (called "Karl...