Green Hills of Africa (Inscribed first edition)
by Hemingway, Ernest
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Pasadena, California, United States
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About This Item
After publishing Winner Take Nothing in 1933, "Hemingway went to Africa to shoot the bounding kudu and to reply to his critics. The result is Green Hills of Africa... It is the most literary hunting trip on record" (New York Times). Here Hemingway "attempted to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination." It stands as one of his most memorable books set in the continent and, along with The Snows of Kilimanjaro, helped to establish his reputation as a safari-hunter and outdoorsman. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket.
Synopsis
Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 work of nonfiction written by Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway's second work of nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa is basically a journal of a month on safari he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Green Hills of Africa is divided into four parts: Pursuit and Conversation, Pursuit Remembered, Pursuit and Failure, and Pursuit as Happiness, each of which plays a different role in the story.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Whitmore Rare Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5255
- Title
- Green Hills of Africa (Inscribed first edition)
- Author
- Hemingway, Ernest
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1935
- Keywords
- Where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.
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