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Green Hills of Africa

Green Hills of Africa

Author(s): Ernest Hemingway

Location(s): Drakensberg Mountains, South Africa

Genre(s): Autobiography/Memoirs

Era(s): First half of the 20th Century

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Returning to his love of the African continent and its wildlife, Hemingway captures brilliantly the thrill and excitement of the hunt for big game. In some of the most vivid, intense and evocative travel writing, and memoir of his career, he describes the vastness of Africa and the brutality of its ‘sports’, showing even in this slim volume why he was one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.

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“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...

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