Green Hills of Africa + 60 years
I first read this when I was in Junior High School 60 plus years ago. I hated it! Boring, no shooting, no details of what they did and nothing about guns! Then a copy of Hemingway’s Guns found it way to my house. And found an Easton copy of Green Hills of Africa that I thought would be a good addition to my hunting collection. I found out it was excellent!
This is Earnest Hemingway's book on his 1935 safari to East Africa. In the sixty years since I first read it, I have found out the there is a lot more to hunting than the shooting. While there is a lot of discussion on the relationship between the hunters and the professional, the most interesting part was the developing relationship to the African guides, trackers, his wife, and workers.
When you are 14 years old, females are only about sex. At 74, they also have some interesting points about life and comic conversations. Philip Percival, his professional hunter for both his safaris, was the most famous of the 1920’s and 1930’s. His conversations between his wife and Percival and Hemingway are a delight now that I have been married for 55 years.
It is going to be a long winter here in the north country, so you may want to put this on your reading list.
