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Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari [Hardcover]

Christopher Ondaatje (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 237 pages
  • Publisher: Overlook Press (May 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1585675393
  • ISBN-13: 978-1585675395
  • Product Dimensions: 24.2 x 16.4 x 2.6 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,846,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Africa was an obsession for Hemingway throughout his life. Long before he wrote his first published book review (of an African novel), The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, The Green Hills of Africa, or his posthumous novel, True at First Light (based on his final safari in 1953), he had been enthralled as a ten-year-old by newspaper accounts of the African expedition undertaken in 1909 by his boyhood idol, Theodore Roosevelt. In writing Hemingway in Africa, Christopher Ondaatje followed the trail of Hemingway's two major African safaris - through Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda - and analyzes Hemingway's writings to uncover a startling amount of new material, both documentary and literary, on this rarely discussed, vitally important aspect of Hemingway's life and work. With broad insight into one of the themes that defined Hemingway's career, Hemingway in Africa provides a compelling look into the life of the author for whom dangerous exploits were 'in the final analysis an effort to relieve the intensity of existing at the edge.' --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing and evocative 8 Oct 2003
By A Customer
Format:Hardcover
Christopher Ondaatje's book is an evocative account of Hemingway's two trips to Africa, and the effect that the continent had on the man and his writing.

Following (quite literally) in the footsteps of a person he both admires and abhors, Ondaatje traces the literary influences on 'Papa' Hemingway, and the complex factors which drove him. Included are the effects Africa had on him as a young journalist, through to his loves, passions and jealousies when on his two safaris.

Although a physically weighty book, it's also an intriguing read, illustrated with Ondaatje's own sepia-tinted photographs, lending a timelessness to the work.

A worthy addition to the ranks of Hemingway material.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Journey 17 Oct 2006
By Jacob Lawrence - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Ondaatje is one of my favorite writers. In Hemingway in Africa he takes the reader on a journey that Hemingway himself did not reveal. The photographs are wonderful and the writng is engaging. I truly enjoyed this unique book. Highly recomended.

Also Recomended: Woolf in Ceylon, Traces of Eden
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2.0 out of 5 stars Ondaatje's no Hemingway 3 Jun 2006
By Thorne Kelly - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
The best thing about this book are the repro photos of Hemingway and his contemporaries. Sadly, the author's own photos, scavenged from his previous trip files, are mostly poor stock. The same can be said of his writing. There are no new nor creditable insights into Hemingway here, in fact you will mainly learn about author Ondaarje's own quirks and predelictions, ad nauseum. Ondaatje is not a hunter, knows nothing of hunting, and yet presupposes his ability to dissect "Hemingway in Africa" when in fact hunting was the sole motivator for Ernest's 1933 trip to the dark continent. It's like a medical biography penned by a chimney sweep. You will get very little insight into Ernest Hemingway as the book wanders hither and yon. Even worse, the book is full of factual errors and shaky assumptions as Ondaatje waddles over the landscape searching Hemingway's trail. Ondaatje had previously been in Africa for a book on British explorers Speke and Burton. It is apparent he decided to capitalize on that experience and become a literary critic. He has failed miserably. Buy the book for the pictures, nothing else....
3.0 out of 5 stars not my cup of tea (or whiskey). 12 July 2011
By Gregory Hope - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Hardcover
Readers of literary biographies will likely find more of interest in this book than I did. I am not qualified to comment on the author's analysis of Hemingway as a literary figure. The author of the book did not strike me as being qualified to delve deeply into the motivations of Hemingway as hunter. As a hunter myself and an avid reader of safari books penned during the colonial era in Africa I found this book to be a disappointment. If your interest is African safaris or hunting in general I would pass on this title. If your interest is in Hemingway as a person and particularly as a writer then you may appreciate the book. One minor point: I found the glossy pages of my hardcover edition to be a trial to read due to the glare. Better to have put only the photos on glossy pages.
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