Posted by Christopher Ondaatje on June 27, 2004 at 22:45:00:
HEMINGWAY IN AFRICA: The Last Safari.
by Christopher Ondaatje
Africa was an obsession for Hemingway all his life and Ondaatje, through several personal journeys into both the physical and literary aspects of Hemingway’s safaris, has produced a startling and controversial documentary of the man and the myth. With new information on the alarming fact behind the fiction, his inspirations, his women, and the disastrous conclusion to his last safari, this book goes a long way to solving the mystery of why Hemingway sought to link artistic pursuit with immortality and why Africa seems particularly to have allowed for an exploration of the theme. Against the backdrop of this astonishing land with its absurd beauty the natural world gained for Hemingway a terrifying force.