| Green Hills of Africa Contributor(s): Hemingway, Ernest (Author), Lucas, Josh (Read by) |
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ISBN: 0743564448 ISBN-13: 9780743564441 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio OUR PRICE: $26.96 Product Type: Compact Disc - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: This audio presentation of Hemingway's remarkable re-creation of his two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa is rich in description and refreshingly alive to the character, culture, and customs of the country. Unabridged. 6 CDs. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Travel | Essays & Travelogues - Travel | Africa - East - Sports & Recreation | Hunting |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 5.2" W x 5.7" (0.40 lbs) 6 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - African - Cultural Region - East Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway's memoir of his safari across the Serengeti--presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of Hemingway's second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer. When it was first published in 1935, The New York Times called Green Hills of Africa, "The best-written story of big-game hunting anywhere," Hemingway's evocative account of his safari through East Africa with his wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, captures his fascination with big-game hunting. In examining the grace of the chase and the ferocity of the kill, Hemingway looks inward, seeking to explain the lure of the hunt and the primal undercurrent that comes alive on the plains of Africa. Green Hills of Africa is also an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man. This new Hemingway Library Edition offers a fresh perspective on Hemingway's classic travelogue, with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the author's sole surviving son, who spent many years as a professional hunter in East Africa; a new introduction by Se n Hemingway, grandson of the author; and, published for the first time in its entirety, the African journal of Hemingway's wife, Pauline, which offers an intimate glimpse into thoughts and experiences that shaped her husband's craft. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hemingway, Ernest: - Ernest Hemingway did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of the greatest literary lights of the 20th century. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He died in 1961.Lucas, Josh: - Josh Lucas' film credits include: Poseidon, Glory Road, The War, Stealth, Around the Bend, Undertow, Wonderland, Hulk, Sweet Home Alabama, A Beautiful Mind, The Deep End, and American Psycho. Lucas' theatre credits include: The Glass Menagerie and Corpus Christi. |