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  • Green Hills of Africa

  • By: Ernest Hemingway
  • Narrated by: Josh Lucas
  • Length: 5 hrs and 58 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (49 ratings)

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Green Hills of Africa

By: Ernest Hemingway
Narrated by: Josh Lucas
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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.
Who's your papa? Listen to more from Ernest Hemingway.
©1935, 1963 Charles Scribner's Sons and Mary Hemingway. All rights reserved, including the right of reproduction in whole or in part in any form (P)2006 Simon and Schuster Inc. All rights reserved.
Authors Classics Cultural & Regional Travel Writing & Commentary World Celebrity
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Marvelous language and writing

A beautiful book, it’s only hard to truly love the subject matter. Quite controversial and hard to chew at times. Language is 11/10.

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Ambivalent feelings

I have struggled through 3/4 of this book and by the time I reached Part Four, I truly detested Hemingway’s writing... only to be completely blown away by this final part. I’m not sure what happened... but might give another go for the rest of it.

Josh Lucas is brilliant! He’s arrogant, somewhat drooling voice is just as I imagine Hemingway to be. He did justice to his style.

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