An American literary treasure "The sun was not up but that was
because of the flank of the mountain it had to rise over and the
light was gray but good and Ngui and I were walking through the
grass that was wet from the dew. He walked ahead because he knew
where the bait had been hung and I watched the trees and his back
and the trail his black legs made through the wetness of the grass.
We walked silently and the cold wet of the new knee-high grass
against my legs was cold and pleasant. Ngui carried the old
Winchester pump gun and I carried the Springfield and the only
noise that I heard from myself was the light slopping of the tea in
my stomach." -Under Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway Accompanied by
his fourth wife Mary, famed American novelist Ernest Hemingway
spent several months in late 1953 and early 1954 on his final
safari in Kenya. Their time there came to an abrupt end in early
January 1954 when they sustained serious injuries from two
near-fatal plane crashes in east Africa. While recovering, and back
home in Havana, Hemingway wrote his "African book," which is, by
turns, an adventuresome, comedic, and thoughtful recounting of his
final safari. In Under Kilimanjaro "Papa" colors real people and
events with his lively imagination as he demonstrates his
inimitable style, his deft wit, and his intelligent curiosity in
this autobiographical novel about the land and people he came to
love. Completed in 1956, Under Kilimanjaro is part handwritten and
part typed, with many of the pages heavily edited in Hemingway's
hand. He then left this manuscript, along with those for A Moveable
Feast, Islands in the Stream, and The Garden of Eden, in a
safe-deposit box in Cuba, often referring to them as his "life
insurance" for his heirs. Under Kilimanjaro is the last of
Hemingway's manuscripts to be published in its entirety. Editors
Robert W. Lewis and Robert E. Fleming believe that "this book
deserves as complete and faithful a publication as possible without
editorial distortion, speculation, or textually unsupported
attempts at improvement. Our intent has been to produce a complete
reading text of Ernest Hemingway's manuscript. . . .Working on it
was both a privilege and a responsibility. . . .Readers of this
remarkable work will experience the mingled pleasure of revisiting
the familiar and discovering the new." To its readers, Under
Kilimanjaro reveals a mature, tender, happy, and reflective
Hemingway and offers a compelling, deliberately paced, subtle story
of a place and time as only Ernest Hemingway could write it.
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