Having read this book, Hemmingway brought me to Africa, a beautiful continent. Hemmingway loved it very much. He described, "I loved the country so that I was happy as you are after you have been with a woman that you really love, when, empty, you feel it welling up again and there it is and you can never have it all and yet what there is, now, you can have, and you want more and more, to have, and be, and live in, to posses now again and always."

Reading this beautifully-written book was like I went to Africa with him camped in a tent on a hill, enjoyed a handsome sceneries, felt the dangerous of African wildlife, and hunted 'kudu', something like bull with him.

Like other book I read before, The Sun Also Rises, Hemmingway showed his strenght to describe anything.

I also want to quote his wise thought about invader and his concern about the environment :

"A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out, and next it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited. A country wears out quickly unless man puts back in it all his residue and that of all his beasts. When he quits using beasts and uses machines the earth defeates him quickly. The machine can't reproduce, nor does it fertilize the soil, and it eats what he cannot raise.

A country was made to be as we found it. We are the intruders and after we are dead we may have ruined it but it will still there and we don't know what the next changes are."