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Green Hills of Africa

The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti—presented with archival material from the Hemingway Collection at the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-bef

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“They [the best of the Masai] had that attitude that makes brothers, that unexpressed but instant and complete acceptance that you must be Masai wherever it is you come from. That attitude you only get from the best of the English, the best of the Hungarians and the very best Spaniards; the thing tha…”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“[T]he rain was making the finest sound that we, who live much outside of houses, ever hear.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. […] 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.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“The best sky was in Italy and Spain and northern Michigan in the fall and in the fall in the Gulf off Cuba.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“I have a good life but I must write because if I do not write a certain amount I do not enjoy the rest of my life.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com

“Dostoevsky was made by being sent to Siberia. Writers are forged in injustice as a sword is forged.”

— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com