{"product_id":"green-hills-of-africa-scribner-classics-9780684844633","title":"Green Hills of Africa (Scribner Classics)","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"There are some things which cannot be learned quickly  and time  which is all we have  must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things  and because it takes a mans life to know them the little new that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave.\" -- ERNEST HEMINGWAY  In the winter of 1933  Ernest Hemingway and his wife Pauline set out on a two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa  camping out on the great Serengeti Plain at the foot of magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro. \"I had quite a trip \" the author told his friend Philip Percival  with characteristic understatement. Green Hills of Africa is Hemingways account of that expedition  of what it taught him about Africa and himself. Richly evocative of the regions natural beauty  tremendously alive to its character  culture  and customs  and pregnant with a hard-won wisdom gained from the extraordinary situations it describes  it is widely held to be one of the twentieth centurys classic travelogues.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45279776833589,"sku":"ByrdShop_068484463X","price":27.97,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780684844633.jpg?v=1780609883","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/green-hills-of-africa-scribner-classics-9780684844633","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}