Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway (EPUB)

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“There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things, and because it takes a man’s life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.” — ERNEST HEMINGWAY In the winter of 1933, Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. “I had quite a trip,” the author told his friend Philip Percival, with characteristic understatement. Green Hills of Africa is Hemingway’s account of that expedition, of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the region’s natural beauty, tremendously alive to its character, culture, and customs, and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes, it is widely held to be one of the twentieth century’s classic travelogues.

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⭐I purchased this book based on a review that stated that it was a description of early unspoiled Africa. This was not the case. If you are one of those people that get pleasure out of the torture and killing of animals, then this is the book for you. The hunting blood lust runs hot and thick as Hemingway describes his rampage of animal slaughter. Some he kills for trophies, some he kills for meat, some he kills just for fun or target practice, and some he just wounds and allows them to die a painful prolonged death. But kill he does. And he revels in the slaughter. He laments the spoiling of America while at the same time ravaging Africa. This book, and Ernest Hemingway, sickened me.

⭐What is there not to like about Hemingways prose?

⭐Thank You.

⭐It gets three stars just for being Hemingway. He was trying to write a safari book to rival Selous, Ruark, Stigand, Wells, Roosevelt and others who described big game hunting in Africa. When he is simply describing a hunt it is good but he constantly includes text that is just writing about how good or bad of a hunter he is. He agonizes over not drying the oil out of the barrel of his rifle that caused it to shoot high and miss his animal which is only there to show how smart he was for realizing that that is what caused him to miss rather than that he simply had bad aim. It gets old. But I still enjoy reading it along with the other authors mentioned. At least here his self-reflective navel gazing isn’t as atrocious as in the posthumously published “True at First Light” that was finished by his last wife, Mary, who was simply a Hemingway parasite in many ways. Read that one and judge for yourself.

⭐I wanted to like Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway but I found it more boring than exciting. I have read Death in the Afternoon by him and it was a brilliant book in the whole sense of the word. This one lacks the entertainment value I was hoping to find reading about safari life in Africa. Surely has its moments but mostly they are all sitting by the fireside and long blocks of dialogue with Papa?, back and forth, forth and back, and less and less describing the wild life of the immense region that is Africa. I do not contest the fact that Hemingway has been in more exotic places than most of us can ever hope to be, for he strikes me as even royalty in some cases the way he thinks and acts. I am glad I bought this book used together with another book on the subject of safaris. The other one was heads and tails so much full of life and situations compared to this one. I guess he earned a living even while on vacation and documenting his itineraries was profitable enough. When he was on Africa he wrote of the place, when in Spain he wrote some masterpieces about that place as well. He gets started with dialogue that seem to me self aggrandizing, too full of himself and that is when is time to tune in to animal planet. Average reading for an obviously talented writer, a powerhouse of world wide recognition. I thought this book was going to be quite a book but I found myself skipping more and more pages. Don’t have time to admire the name of a famous writer if the the story does not merit it. 3 Stars.

⭐I love Hemmingway. However, this book was written for hunters. It’s about travelling around Africa and yes,shooting big game, mostly that they just stumbled onto. They spend three-fourths of the book trying tofind Kudus and finally get two big Kudu trophies. They also end up with a Rino, a great male Lion and a couple ofother trophies. It’s also about stumbling around in the intense heat and lots of dust with guides and bearers during the mostly dry season in Africa…and also African forests and a few villages they chance upon.If you’re not a hunter it’s a tedious book. I loved the rest of Hemmingway’s books. His Biography is also a great read!

⭐A great book for people who love adventures and traveling to new lands. The Book was brand new and of very good quality. Go for it.

⭐I have always liked Hemingway.. however this gave me a different angle.. killing so many beautiful animals every day, what a terrible thing to do.. even he mentions that it wont last.. that hunting became tourism .. but he did it anyway.. not good… trophy ;hunting and for what… just for a bit of short term pleasure… while killing off species..

⭐Its ok as a piece of writing but rather dismaying vis a vis descriptions of pointless and destructive big game hunts. E.g. he shoots a rhino and is initially very pleased with his good shot and congratulations received. Then almost immediately discovers another guy has just shot a way bigger rhino. He is then utterly consumed with feelings of envy and concern for his image / reputation because his rhino kill now seems pointless. Pointless only in terms of it adding nothing to his standing or ego…. not a moment’s thought as to the rights or wrongs of the casual destruction of animal life. Different times … .

⭐Maybe it is a testament to his writing that a book about the incomprehensible subject of big game hunting, with a cast of unpleasant characters who possess few redeeming features was actually quite a good read.I like the way he writes dialogue, however, not being well versed in Hemingway’s books I can’t say if this is one of his better works – although I have a feeling it is probably not.An interesting read, but with far less description of the landscape, countryside and local people than I expected.

⭐Brilliant excellent read

⭐I finished this book whilst flying over East Africa, he brings the thrill and respect of the hunt to life

⭐I read this book in an attempt to understand the motivations of the safari hunters of the 20th century. After travellling through Kenya and being overwhelmed by the beauty and drama of the safari animals, I wanted to know more about why so many Western men were seduced by the idea of killing them. Unfortunately Hemingway in this book doesn’t provide many answers apart from a predictable desire for an image of tough masculinity. While it contains some great lyrical descriptions, the book quickly becomes simply a list of his ‘triumphs’/killings and his petty competitiveness with other males in the pursuit of trophies. It does not compare with other Hemingway texts but is still worth the read.

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