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Penguin pocket, 1969, 256 s, något gulnat omslag i övrigt mycket gott skick, på engelska, in english

Near-new condition - NO writing, marks or tears inside book - Tight spine - Bright pages - 319 pages - Both revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights into the legendary American writer in the year of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. A blend of autobiography and fiction, the book opens on the day his close friend Pop, a celebrated hunter, leaves Ernest in charge of the safari camp and news arrives of a potential attack from a hostile tribe. Drama continues to build as his wife, Mary, pursues the great black-maned lion that has become her obsession. Spicing his depictions of human longings with sharp humor, Hemingway captures the excitement of big-game hunting and the unparalleled beauty of the scenery - the green plains covered with gray mist, zebra and gazelle traversing the horizon, cool dark nights broken by the sounds of the hyena's cry. As the group at camp help Mary track her prize, she and Ernest suffer the "incalculable casualties of marriage

Like-new / Unread condition - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - The Finca Vigia Edition - 650 pages -

Like-new / Unread condition - NO writing, marks or tears - Tight spine - Bright pages - 127 pages