Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari - Hardcover

Ondaatje, Christopher

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1585675393 ISBN 13: 9781585675395

Publisher: Overlook Press, 2004

Synopsis

Dramatic full-color period photographs complement a intriguing look at Hemingway's lifelong fascination with Africa, following the trail of Hemingway's two major African safaris and analyzing the author's writings to explore the important influence of the continent on his life and work. 15,000 first printing.

About this title

Synopsis:

Africa was an obsession for Hemingway throughout his life. Long before he wrote his first published book review (of an African novel), The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Green Hills of Africa, or his posthumous novel, True at First Light (based on his final safari in 1953), he had been enthralled as a ten-year-old by newspaper accounts of the African expedition undertaken in 1909 by his boyhood idol, Theodore Roosevelt. In writing Hemingway in Africa, Christopher Ondaatje followed the trail of Hemingway's two major African safaris - through Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda - and analyzes Hemingway's writings to uncover a startling amount of new material, both documentary and literary, on this rarely discussed, vitally important aspect of Hemingway's life and work. With broad insight into one of the themes that defined Hemingway's career, Hemingway in Africa provides a compelling look into the life of the author for whom dangerous exploits were 'in the final analysis an effort to relieve the intensity of existing at the edge.'

About the Author:

Christopher Ondaatje founded Pagurian Press in 1967.

About this edition

• Publisher: Overlook Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 1585675393
• ISBN 13: 9781585675395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 237