Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

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Green Hills of Africa

(1935) is Ernest Hemingway's second book of non-fiction concerning a blood sport. The book was occasioned by an African safari the author took with his second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer Hemingway, in 1933-1934. In a brief foreword, Hemingway called the book a novel based on real people and actual events (i.e., what has come to be known as a 'non-fiction novel'). Much as Henry David Thoreau had altered time sequences, compressed events, and inserted meditative passages in books such as

Walden

, Hemingway altered the facts of his hunting trip, built suspense by using novelistic techniques, and employed the book as a vehicle for his thoughts on various matters, principally writing.

Hemingway structured the volume by creating four books: “Pursuit and Conversation”,

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Citation: Fleming, Robert E.. "Green Hills of Africa". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 July 2001 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=4889, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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