Green Hills of Africa Audiobook (Free)

The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari over the Serengeti-presented with archival materials from your Hemingway Collection on the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

When it had been first published in 1935, The New York Times called Green Hills of Africa, “The best-written tale of big-game hunting anywhere,” Hemingway’s evocative approximately Green Hills of Africa account of his safari through East Africa along with his wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, catches his fascination with big-game hunting. In analyzing the grace from the chase as well as the ferocity from the eliminate, Hemingway looks inward, seeking to explain the lure from the hunt as well as the primal undercurrent that comes alive in the plains of Africa. Green Hills of Africa can be an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and the beauty of the wilderness that was, even then, becoming threatened with the incursions of guy.

This new Hemingway Library Edition offers a fresh perspective on Hemingway’s classic travelogue, with an individual foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the author’s sole surviving son, who spent many years as a professional hunter in East Africa; a fresh introduction by Seán Hemingway, grandson of the author; and, published for the very first time in its entirety, the African journal of Hemingway’s wife, Pauline, which offers an intimate glance into thoughts and encounters that formed her husband’s build.