Green Hills of Africa
by Ernest Hemingway
His second major nonfiction venture (after Death in the afternoon) is the lyrical magazine of Africa for a month on safari in the Green Hills of Africa, East Africa's largest gaming country, where Ernest Hemingway traveled with his wife Pauline in December 1933. Hemingway's known interest – and fascination with the hunt for the great prey – is perfectly reflected in this fascinating account of his trip. Considering the poetic complexity of the chase and the brutality of the murder, Hemingway also looks inward, trying to explain the allure of hunting and the primordial undercurrent that comes alive in the African plains. Yet Africa's Green Hills are a neutral portrait of the splendor of the African landscape and the beauty of the desert, which even then was threatened by human invasion.
