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Green Hills of Africa (Scribner Classics) | 
| Author: Ernest Hemingway
Publisher: Scribner
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
Buy Used: $13.18
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Rating:  41 reviews
Sales Rank: 67105
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.6 x 6.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 068484463X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.52
EAN: 9780684844633
ASIN: 068484463X
Publication Date: April 15, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: clean inside page a very small black line on the edge of the bottom page a great book overall a missing dust jacket
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Product Description
"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave." -- ERNEST HEMINGWAY
In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. "I had quite a trip," the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement. Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway's account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region's natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century's classic travelogues.
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 Death is an old friend December 2, 2008
Ron Braithwaite (El Indio, Texas United States)
Hemingway was a depressive who had a special relationship with death. His excellent--essentially true--tale, 'The Green Hills of Africa' highlights this relationship. No, not because it the killing integral to hunting but because it highlights disappointment and, to a certain extent, selfishness. Hemingway is altogether human. He doesn't always bag the best trophy. His trophies are smaller or 'uglier' than those of his friend. It is a source of personal disappointment.
Having hunted almost everwhere for almost everything, I know that luck is just that 'luck'. It bears no relationship to effort or even expertise. Sometimes the least likely hunter is blessed and the old pro, who knows all the tricks and kills himself with effort, goes off empty-handed or with a lesser animal. Actually this is exactly what keeps most of us hunting...the gamble. Like a gambling addict we keep at it because the highs and lows are just so compelling. Hemingway, in his own way, knew this and he recognized it's necessity and inevitability. Hemingway knew death and his disappointment was death in a very tight package. At age 61 he took a shotgun and blew his head off. No surprise and perhaps inevitable.
Ron Braithwaite author of novels--'Skull Rack' and 'Hummingbird God'--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico
An African hunter's first book October 21, 2008
R. Dufresne (Nashua NH)
If you are planning a trip to Africa and don't read Hemingway you are doing yourself a great disservice.
Wonderful, classic read. September 19, 2008
S. L. Berger (Boise,ID)
This is one of Ernest Hemingways' best!(And there were some of his I did not like at all) You Must read this!
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