Green Hills of Africa (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Ernest Hemingway
- First Published: 1935
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Memoir
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Traveling or travelers, Voyages, Nature, Adventure, Hunting or hunters, Machismo, Animals, Land settlement, Wildlife
Critical Evaluation:
In his foreword to Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway said that he was attempting “to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month’s action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination.” The result is a novelized account of a safari he joined in East Africa from December 8, 1933, to February 17, 1934.
Accompanying Hemingway were his wife Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway (called P.O.M., meaning Poor Old Mama), a friend from Key West, Florida, named Charles Thompson (Karl...
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