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."
Hemingway's first venture into nonfiction, Green Hills of Africa chronicles his adventures on safari in the early 1930s and brings to life the beauty of the wilderness that was, even then, threatened by the incursion of man. Woodcuts, scattered throughout the book, add another dimension to this view of the hard-edged, rugged world of wild Africa.
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