Hemingway Ernest: Green Hills of Africa

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'I remember seeing the lion looking yellow and heavy-headed and enormous against a scrubby-looking tree in a patch of orchard bush and P. O. M. kneeling to shoot him. Then there was the short-barrelled explosion of the Mannlicher and the lion was going to the left on a run, a strange, heavy-shouldered, foot-swinging cat run. I hit him with the Springfield and he went down...' Returning to his love of the African continent and its wildlife, Hemingway captures brilliantly the thrill and excitement of the hunt for big game. In some of the most vivid, intense and evocative travel writing, and memoir of his career, he describes the vastness of Africa and the brutality of its 'sports', showing even in this slim volume why he was one of the great American writers of the twentieth century.... Green Hills of Africa - Ernest Hemingway This is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and 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. z kategorie Knihy | Cizojazyčná literatura | English literature | Fiction and Literature | Fiction od Arrow books naleznete ne e-shopu KnihyDobrovsky.cz! Hemingway captures the shape, colour and smell of Africa in this novel that was originally published in 1935. It does include hunting descriptions and the killing of lions that would be seen as criminal in 2000, but it is nevertheless a classic novel. Autor : Ernest Hemingway, Druh sortimentu : Kniha, Green Hills of Africa, Jazyk : Angličtina, Počet stran : 208