Ernest Hemingway. First American edition, first printing. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1935. First printing/first issue of the first edition, with the Scribner's "A" and the Scribner's Seal on the copyright page (Hanneman). Unclipped jacket is a new facsimile dust jacket. Hardcover is in Very Good+ condition with sticker residue on inside cover, otherwise in great shape. No writing or any other markings found in this copy, 294 pp.
"Green Hills of Africa" is Hemingway's second work of nonfiction. This book is an account of a month on safari he and his second wife Pauline, took in East Africa during December 1933. It is divided into four parts: "Pursuit and Conversation", "Pursuit Remembered", "Pursuit and Failure", and "Pursuit as Happiness", each playing a vital role in the story.
After publishing Winner Take Nothing in 1933, "Hemingway went to Africa to shoot the bounding kudu and to reply to his critics. The result is Green Hills of Africa... It is the most literary hunting trip on record" (New York Times). Here Hemingway "attempted to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination." It stands as one of his most memorable books set in the continent and, along with The Snows of Kilimanjaro, helped to establish his reputation as a safari-hunter and outdoorsman.
