The most intimate and elaborately enhanced addition to the Hemingway Library series: Hemingway’s memoir of his safari across the Serengeti-presented with archival materials in the Hemingway Collection on the John F. Kennedy Library and with the never-before-published safari journal of Hemingway’s second wife, Pauline Pfeiffer.

When it was first published in 1935, The New York Times called Green Hills of Africa, “The best-written story of big-game hunting anywhere,” Hemingway’s evocative approximately Green Hills of Africa account of his safari through East Africa along with his wife, Pauline Pfeiffer, catches his desire for big-game hunting. In evaluating the grace from the chase and the ferocity from the kill, Hemingway looks inward, wanting to clarify the lure from the hunt as well as the primal undercurrent that comes alive for the plains of Africa. Green Hillsides of Africa can be an impassioned family portrait of the glory of the African landscape and the beauty of the wilderness that was, even then, being threatened from the incursions of guy.

This new Hemingway Library Edition offers a brand new perspective on Hemingway’s classic travelogue, with an individual foreword by Patrick Hemingway, the author’s sole surviving son, who spent a long time as a specialist hunter in East Africa; a fresh introduction by Seán Hemingway, grandson of the writer; and, published for the first time in its entirety, the African journal of Hemingway’s wife, Pauline, that provides an intimate glimpse into thoughts and encounters that designed her husband’s build.