Ernest Hemingway. Green hills of africa 2nd. ed. 1953. Signerad av Hemingway i Havana 1955. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1953.

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Description: Hälsning och Signerad av Ernest Hemingway, till sjökapten Nils Grönqvist, på främre försättsbladet. "For Capitan Nils grönquist with great gratitude and pleasure for being recieved and entertained on board. SKÄÄL Ernest Hemingway 90% grabs. Sw. (SKÄÄL should be SKÅL = cheers) Boken med etikett från Bohemia rental library bookstore, Havana Cuba.(retailer of Hemingway's books in Havana) Nils Grönquist, 1902-1970 var kapten på SAL M/S Vretaholm. 11/6 1954 - 7/6 1955. Vretaholm låg i Havanna 28 dec 1954 - 7 jan 1955. Lunchen var den 4 januari 1955, Medföljer: Fotografier på Nils Grönqvist och familj. utdrag på skeppslistan för Vretaholm, SvD. m.fl. kopior. I Svenska Dagbladet 10 Jan 1955 var infört följande notis; "DEN GAMLE OCH HAVET, Då svenska Amerika Linjens Vretaholm 28 december - 6 januari låg i Havanna, fick man celebert besök ombord. Det var Ernest Hemingway, som på Personlig inbjudan av Skeppsredare Tor-Erland J:son Broström lunchade ombord och besåg fartyget." i Svensk skeppstidning januari 1955 var infört följande notis; "SAL Vretaholm hade under senaste hamnliggande i Havanna ett celebert besök. Det var 1954-års nobelpristagare i litteratur Ernest Hemingway, som på personlig inbjudan av skeppsredare Tor Erland J:son Broström åt lunch ombord och samtidigt passade på att närmare bekanta sig med det svenska fartyget. I lunchen deltog även skeppsredare Broströms Maka Marie-Elisabeth, Mr Hemingways maka och befälhavaren ombord på Vretaholm, Sjökapten Nils Grönquist." "This is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December of 1933. Hemingway's well-known fascination with hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account. An intriguing examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and beauty of a wilderness that was - even then - threatened by incursions" ""Green Hills of Africa was published in 1935, but initially appeared in Scribners Magazine the same year (Meyers, 1985). The first edition explains that Hemingway "attempted to write an absolutely true book to see whether the shape of a country and the pattern of a month's action can, if truly presented, compete with a work of the imagination." The author's intentions were quickly confirmed when the first print-run sold a popular 10,500 copies, and it was aptly praised by The New York Times as "a fine book on death in the African afternoon.The writing is the thing; that way he has of getting down with beautiful precision the exact way things look, smell, taste, feel, sound." Not unlike Hemingway's virtuosic abilities, Green Hills of Africa also offers the writer's opinions on the value of his contemporaries: Hemingway adds that most American writers are inadequate and "came to a bad end" The value of Green Hills of Africa, therefore, is three-fold. It serves as masterly written entertainment, a successful social experiment that tested the receptivity of the American public, and an insight into the author's literary evaluation. The Observer is correct when it wrote, "If he were never to write again, his name would live as long as the English language, for Green Hills of Africa takes its place beside his other works on that small shelf in our libraries which we reserve for the classics."".

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