Green Hills of Africa

His second major venture into nonfiction (after Death in the Afternoon, 1932), Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in -- and fascination with -- big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. In examining the poetic grace of the chase, and the ferocity of the kill, Hemingway also looks inward, seeking to explain the lure of the hunt and the primal undercurrent that comes alive on the plains of Africa. Yet Green Hills of Africa is also an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape, and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.
Hemingway's rich description of the beauty and strangeness of the land and his passion for the sport of hunting combine to give Green Hills of Africa the freshness and immediacy of a deeply felt personal experience that is the hallmark of the greatest travel writing.

• The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
• Death in the Afternoon
• Islands in the Stream
• The Tree Where Man Was Born (Penguin Classics)
• To Have and Have Not
• The Safari Companion: A Guide to Watching African Mammals
• Wildlife of East Africa (Princeton Pocket Guides)
• Across The River And Into The Trees
• The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway: The Finca Vigia Edition
• Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari