Green Hills of Africa » (Reprint)

The winner of the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, Ernest Hemingway is one of the true giants of modern American literature. Hemingway's punchy, pared-down style and ability to zero in on the perfect characterizing detail of a person or scene has influenced every serious novelist of the second half of the 20th century. Everyone reads him at one time or another.

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 Mount Kilimanjaro. "I had quite a trip," he told his friend Phillip Percival, and he later used these experiences to create GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA.

Rich in description and refreshingly alive to the character of the country, it is one of Hemingway's most revealing aesthetic statements. His writing, as Carl Van Doren remarked, "sings like poetry without ever ceasing to be prose, easy, intricate and magical."