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Green Hills Of Africa Paperback – 19 Nov 2012

by Ernest Hemingway (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0099460954 ISBN-10: 0099460955 Edition: 1^st

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Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of amonth on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where heand his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway'swell-known interest in - and fascination with big-game hunting ismagnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It isexamination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait ofthe glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wildernessthat was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.

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Paperback: 208 pages
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET; 1 edition (19 November 2012)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0099460955
ISBN-13: 978-0099460954
Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.3 x 19.8 cm
Boxed-product Weight: 159 g
Average Customer Review: 2 customer reviews
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 92,442 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #141 in Hunting
- #1039 in Biographies of Authors
- #1330 in Travel Writing

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"A fine book on death in the African afternoon. . .The writing is the thing; that way he has of getting down with beautiful precision the exact way things look, smell, taste, feel, sound" (New York Times)

"If he were never to write again, his name would live as long as the English language, for Green Hills of Africa takes its place beside his other works on that small shelf in our libraries which we reserve for the classics" (Observer)

"This book is an expression of a deep enjoyment and appreciation of being alive - in Africa. There is more to it than hunting; it is the feeling of the dew on the grass in the morning, the shape and colour and smell of the country, the companionship of friends ... and the feeling that time has ceased to matter" (TLS)

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'In a class by itself-the country, at all hours shines bright and clear in these pages' Daily Telegraph

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Paddington Bear

An indulgent macho adventure

2 December 2015

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I read this book in an attempt to understand the motivations of the safari hunters of the 20th century. After travellling through Kenya and being overwhelmed by the beauty and drama of the safari animals, I wanted to know more about why so many Western men were seduced by the idea of killing them. Unfortunately Hemingway in this book doesn't provide many answers apart from a predictable desire for an image of tough masculinity. While it contains some great lyrical descriptions, the book quickly becomes simply a list of his 'triumphs'/killings and his petty competitiveness with other males in the pursuit of trophies. It does not compare with other Hemingway texts but is still worth the read.

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Caven Tootell

Good Safari Story

28 February 2018

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This, in my opinion, is much in the style of other Hemmingway stories I have read. Was surprised it was an autobiographical of some of his 'safaris'. It is, and this was a different age, a bit big boys shooting animals and drinking, but if you put that aside, surprisingly well written narrative on his quest to 'bag' his trophies before his permit expires and his interactions with his hunting party.

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Bob Rich

I enjoy Hemingway and the reader's voice is perfect

7 October 2017 - Published on Amazon.com

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I enjoy Hemingway and the reader's voice is perfect. One major complaint is the volume. I listen to it in the car when I drive to work. The reader does numerous voices. When he speaks as Hemingway, his voice is normal. When he changes to another character it's very loud, I guess to emphasize that the character speaking has changed. So I am constantly turning the volume up and down and I miss a lot of what Hemingway is saying. It's a shame, because if not for that I'd give it 5 stars. If listening at home without background sounds, this might not be a problem.

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Randy Mosele

Hemingway at his most self-conscious

6 March 2019 - Published on Amazon.com

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It gets three stars just for being Hemingway. He was trying to write a safari book to rival Selous, Ruark, Stigand, Wells, Roosevelt and others who described big game hunting in Africa. When he is simply describing a hunt it is good but he constantly includes text that is just writing about how good or bad of a hunter he is. He agonizes over not drying the oil out of the barrel of his rifle that caused it to shoot high and miss his animal which is only there to show how smart he was for realizing that that is what caused him to miss rather than that he simply had bad aim. It gets old. But I still enjoy reading it along with the other authors mentioned. At least here his self-reflective navel gazing isn’t as atrocious as in the posthumously published “True at First Light” that was finished by his last wife, Mary, who was simply a Hemingway parasite in many ways. Read that one and judge for yourself.

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Eddie Wannabee

Too full of himself, little excitement!

15 November 2011 - Published on Amazon.com

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I wanted to like Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway but I found it more boring than exciting. I have read Death in the Afternoon by him and it was a brilliant book in the whole sense of the word. This one lacks the entertainment value I was hoping to find reading about safari life in Africa. Surely has its moments but mostly they are all sitting by the fireside and long blocks of dialogue with Papa?, back and forth, forth and back, and less and less describing the wild life of the immense region that is Africa. I do not contest the fact that Hemingway has been in more exotic places than most of us can ever hope to be, for he strikes me as even royalty in some cases the way he thinks and acts. I am glad I bought this book used together with another book on the subject of safaris. The other one was heads and tails so much full of life and situations compared to this one. I guess he earned a living even while on vacation and documenting his itineraries was profitable enough. When he was on Africa he wrote of the place, when in Spain he wrote some masterpieces about that place as well. He gets started with dialogue that seem to me self aggrandizing, too full of himself and that is when is time to tune in to animal planet. Average reading for an obviously talented writer, a powerhouse of world wide recognition. I thought this book was going to be quite a book but I found myself skipping more and more pages. Don't have time to admire the name of a famous writer if the the story does not merit it. 3 Stars.

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UncleChick Smith

Second time I've read it

24 August 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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First time since 1978 in Boise. Just read the book, not the scholarly apparatus. It's a chapbook of technique for how to tell a story when much of the time there's no story going on. The casual racism is hard to take and will bother modern readers, as will the casual slaughter of wildlife for the sake of collecting a trophy for your wall. Hemingway is dating badly and was more a creature of his time than his fans like to admit, and his mind is often juvenile. All that said, there is something great about this book, and Hemingway's great artistry rescues the enterprise.

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Valerie Hemingway

Tried and True

22 August 2015 - Published on Amazon.com

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This new expanded edition brings one of Ernest Hemingway's least read works to the public using the original jacket art and fine illustrations of the first edition. While the writing is masterful, and the hunting tale enduring, of special interest are the appendices. For me, the most delightful surprise was Pauline Hemingway's safari journal, her day to day observations provide a perfect complement to her husband's novelistic account.

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