Book · 2002 · Biography & Autobiography
Green Hills of Africa
Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway has been mentioned in 2 episodes across 2 podcasts (0 episodes recommend it and 2 episodes discuss it), through . Most frequently brought up by David Wyatt (1 episode) and Joe Rogan (1 episode) on EconTalk (1 episode) and The Joe Rogan Experience (1 episode).
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And I think it's called the green hills of Africa I think it's called a Hemingway book and he describes killing a rhino.
Joe Rogan · The Joe Rogan Experience · Jul 2018 Listen at 1:57:58 The best things said about it
And by the mid30s with the two non-fictional books, Green Hills of Africa and Death in the Afternoon, he's already shifting away from that clipped style of omission and of short sentences to a much more meditative, reflective, recursive style, which finally culminates in this book.
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Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway is an autobiographical non-fiction account of a month-long big-game hunting safari in East Africa that blends travel writing with deep reflections on literature and art. On EconTalk, David Wyatt mentioned Green Hills of Africa while discussing the evolution of Hemingway's writing style, noting that by the mid-1930s, this work and Death in the Afternoon marked a distinct shift away from short, clipped sentences toward a much more reflective and meditative prose style. On The Joe Rogan Experience, Joe Rogan brought up the book while discussing Ernest Hemingway's descriptions of hunting rhinos in Africa, recalling how the author vividly captured the experience on the page. The book occupies a unique place in the author's bibliography, serving simultaneously as an adventure narrative and a meta-literary commentary on the responsibilities and challenges of being a serious writer. Podcast guests use the text to explore both the biographical realities of the author's adventurous life and the stylistic transitions that defined his literary career during the interwar period.
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David Wyatt And by the mid30s with the two non-fictional books, Green Hills of Africa and Death in the Afternoon, he's… 1
“And by the mid30s with the two non-fictional books, Green Hills of Africa and Death in the Afternoon, he's already shifting away from that clipped style of omission and of short sentences to a much more meditative, reflective, recursive style, which finally culminates in this book.”
Joe Rogan and I think it's called the green hills of Africa I think it's called a Hemingway book and he describes kil… 1
“and I think it's called the green hills of Africa I think it's called a Hemingway book and he describes killing a rhino”