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This new Hemingway Library Edition offers a fresh perspective on Hemingways classic travelogue with a personal foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the authors sole surviving son, who, himself, spent many years as a professional hunter in East Africa a new introduction by Sen Hemingway, grandson of the author and published for the first time in its entirety the African journal of Hemingways wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, which provides new insight into the experiences that shaped her husbands craft. Green Hill Paradise Act 2 Professional Hunter In

Hemingways rich description of the land and his passion for hunting combine to give Green Hills of Africa the immediacy of a deeply felt individual experience that is the hallmark of the greatest travel writing. Green Hills of Africa is also an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape, and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man. In examining the poetic grace of the chase, and the ferocity of the kill, Hemingway looks inward, seeking to explain the lure of the hunt and the primal undercurrent that comes alive on the plains of Africa.