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Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Great Journey
  • Ondaatje's no Hemingway
  • True At First Light, the Truth
 Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari
Christopher Ondaatje
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Canada
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Binding: Hardcover

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Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Journey.......2006-10-18

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

2 out of 5 stars Ondaatje's no Hemingway.......2006-06-03

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....

5 out of 5 stars True At First Light, the Truth.......2004-10-18

I enjoyed Christopher Ondaatje's book from beginning to end. It is well worth the price, and the sheer weight of the book is impressive, for although it is not a big book in height or in number of pages, when you pick it up youu feel the tension in your wrists and lower arms, for each page is extremely thick, creamy and rich, and most of them have photographs placed in them. Physically it is a luxury object.

And it certainly tells us a lot about Hemingway, particularly a facet of his life that I had never cared to peer too deeply into, thinking that his mania for hunting game revealed a side to his character even more contemptible than the others. But oddly enough reading this book had the opposite effect, and one winds up with a queer sympathy for Hemingway, and his adventures in the wild both during his early (30s) trip with Pauline Pfeiffer his second wife, which resulted in the stories, "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" and "The Snows of Kiliminjaro"--and then much later (20 years later), he and Miss Mary embarked on an ill-fated sequel to this safari that caused them both much grief and physical pain and he wound up writing the God awful TRUE AT FIRST LIGHT and during which he clearly went a little insane. All of this Christopher Ondaatje followed, the exact same footsteps, and his journey into the heart of Africa seems to have caused him no cavils at all.

I expect you'll like this book. It reveals a lot of truth and a lot of delicacy of perception.
Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari.(Book review): An article from: The Hemingway Review
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    		Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari.(Book review): An article from: The Hemingway Review
    Suzanne del Gizzo
    Manufacturer: Thomson Gale
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    Binding: Digital

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    ASIN: B000M2DH74
    Release Date: 2006-12-18

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    Title: Hemingway in Africa: The Last Safari.(Book review)
    Author: Suzanne del Gizzo
    Publication: The Hemingway Review (Magazine/Journal)
    Date: September 22, 2006
    Publisher: Thomson Gale
    Volume: 26 Issue: 1 Page: 124(4)

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    Hemingway in Africa : The Last Safari
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      		Hemingway in Africa : The Last Safari
      Christopher Ondaatje
      Manufacturer: HarperCollins Canada
      ProductGroup: Book
      Binding: Paperback
      ASIN: B000O8KH6A

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