'In a class by itself-the country, at all hours shines bright and clear in these pages' Daily Telegraph
Ernest Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899, the second of six children. In 1917, he joined the Kansas City Star as a cub reporter. The following year, he volunteered as an ambulance driver on the Italian front, where he was badly wounded but decorated for his services. He returned to America in 1919, and married in 1921. In 1922, he reported on the Greco-Turkish war before resigning from journalism to devote himself to fiction. He settled in Paris, associating with other expatriates like Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. He was passionately involved with bullfighting, big-game hunting and deep-sea fishing. Recognition of his position in contemporary literature came in 1954 when he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.
A fine book on death in the African afternoon. . .The writing is
the thing; that way he has of getting down with beautiful precision
the exact way things look, smell, taste, feel, sound * New York
Times *
If he were never to write again, his name would live as long as the
English language, for Green Hills of Africa takes its place
beside his other works on that small shelf in our libraries which
we reserve for the classics * Observer *
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 in the morning, the shape and
colour and smell of the country, the companionship of friends ...
and the feeling that time has ceased to matter * TLS *
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