- Genre:biography & autobiography
- Sub-genre:Environmentalists & Naturalists
- Language:English
- Pages:452
- Paperback ISBN:9798991718530
Book details
Overview
Heading out on safari to the Dark Continent? Hemingway's Africa is an excellent choice as a field guide to some of Africa's top mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and even several insects. Also included are interesting facts about the heralded "Magnificent 70" and other animals most travelers desire to observe.
Are you an Ernest Hemingway aficionado? Explore the author's wanderings during a score of years through the course of his African adventures. Follow the footsteps of rarely known routes the famous hunter and his wives chronicled while traversing the continent; one expedition almost turned fatal!
Learn about Hemingway's early childhood, his experiences through two world wars, poor health, and his final days. Pursue the author's career as a world-class angler, plying the waters off Key West, Cuba, and the Bahamas. Discover the stories of Hemingway's five "beloveds," four of whom he married, with escapades involving several secret mistresses, and how they influenced the well-known writer's works.
Included are more than 425 color, black and white, and sepia photos of Hemingway and animals in their natural surroundings.
Often considered a native fauna and flora expert and experienced photographer, many of the author's personal images and observations have also been included in this unique chronicle about Africa and other faraway lands.
Further understand Hemingway's early thoughts about the need to conserve the beauty of the rugged, and undiscovered wilderness that he explored and often had to endure. Many animals that were once common are now on the brink of extinction. Learn what is being done to reintroduce, preserve, and protect what is left of Hemingway's Africa.
Description
Return to Hemingway's Africa is an exploration of Hemingway's life, writings, and enduring connection to Africa, blending biography, travel narrative, and wildlife discovery into a compelling literary journey. Part historical chronicle and part modern safari adventure, the book follows the author's travels across Africa in search of the landscapes, stories, and experiences that shaped Hemingway's legendary African expeditions.
Tracing Hemingway's footsteps through remote regions of the continent, this unique volume examines both Hemingway's personal African journeys and the modern quest to rediscover them. Readers explore the places Hemingway lived, hunted, wrote, and traveled while gaining insight into how these experiences influenced his novels, short stories, and larger-than-life persona.
Beyond Africa, the book delves into Hemingway's broader life including his early years, wartime experiences, and his literary achievements, relationships, and final days. Offering a deeper understanding of the man behind the myth. More than 425 photographs, including historic imagery and vivid scenes of African wildlife, bring both Hemingway's era and today's landscapes to life.
While serving as an engaging companion for hunters, travelers, and readers, Return to Hemingway's Africa functions as both a guidebook and as a narrative tribute to adventure, literature, and history. The work also highlights Hemingway's early appreciation for environmental stewardship and today's ongoing conservation efforts to protect the animals and ecosystems that defined his African experiences. Ideal for admirers of Hemingway, lovers of Africa, and anyone drawn to the intersection of literature, history, and wildlife, this volume celebrates the lasting legacy of one writer's profound relationship with the natural world.
All proceeds after production costs will benefit Hemingway Art and Historical Society, Key West Historical Society, Elephants Without Borders, and Big Life Foundation. All charities focus on education, conservation, study of the African wilderness and their beautiful wildlife populations, or Hemingway history, or art; all causes that Hemingway would approve of.
