Green Hills of Africa

Green Hills of Africa was a 1935 nonfiction book by Ernest Hemingway on the subject of the East African hunting safari he took with his wife in December of 1933, with the legendary Philip Percival as his guide. Most of the action takes place in the region of Lake Manyara around Kenya.

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1935 - Nonfiction - Ernest Hemingway - December - 1933 - Philip Percival - Lake Manyara - Kenya

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It was the first of two African safaris he took in his life (the second was in 1953-1954, and was fictionalized in True at First Light). In addition to inspiring Green Hills of Africa, the first safare also was the impetus for the two short stories "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

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True at First Light - The Snows of Kilimanjaro

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It was originally serialized in Scribner's Magazine, from May to November of 1935.

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The book may be best well known today for a line that has nearly nothing to do with its subject:

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:"The good writers are Henry James, Stephen Crane, and Mark Twain. That's not the order they're good in. There is no order for good writers....All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. If you read it you must stop where the Nigger Jim is stolen from the boys. That is the real end. The rest is just cheating. But it's the best book we've had. All American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since."

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Henry James - Stephen Crane - Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

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This quote is frequently used as evidence that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is The Great American Novel.

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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - The Great American Novel

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