Green Hills of Africa

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Green Hills of Africa is a 1935 nonfiction book by Ernest Hemingway that recounts his month-long safari in East Africa through a blend of travel narrative, hunting chronicle, and literary reflection.


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Predicate Object
instanceOf hunting narrative
memoir
nonfiction book
travel literature
author Ernest Hemingway
countryOfOrigin United States
discusses American authors
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Gustave Flaubert
Leo Tolstoy
featuresCharacter Ernest Hemingway
Karl
Pauline Pfeiffer
Pop
followedBy To Have and Have Not
genre autobiographical literature
nonfiction
sports writing
travel writing
hasPageCount approximately 300
hasPart “Pursuit Remembered”
“Pursuit and Conversation”
“Pursuit and Failure”
“Pursuit as Happiness”
hasReception mixed critical reception on release
hasStyle Hemingway iceberg style
hasTheme art of writing
authenticity
masculinity
nature
violence
literaryForm prose
literaryMovement modernism
mainSubject American literature
big-game hunting
literary criticism
safari
mediaType print
narrativePerspective first-person
notableFor blend of hunting narrative and literary essay
depiction of African landscape
discussion of contemporary writers
originalLanguage English
precededBy Winner Take Nothing
publicationDate 1935
publisher Charles Scribner's Sons
setIn East Africa
Tanganyika Territory
timeOfNarrative 1933 safari


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