Dec 29, 2009

Green Hills of Africa | Green Hills of Africa

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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

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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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Green Hills of Africa | Green Hills of Africa

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