True At First Light

Ernest Hemingway

A deeply personal and candid diary of Hemingway's time hunting in Africa with his wife Mary. The style is vintage Hemingway ... clean, simple prose that carries the reader as if they were sitting between Mary and Papa beneath the canvas of the tent before first light and planning the day's hunt or at night sharing a single cot in a tent in the insect noisy dark and the heat when the air is still, though neither ever complains. They enjoy the days made easier with good liquor, freshly killed meat, trusted friends and the ever-present characters dropping in and out of their lives, some distrusted and hated by Mary but apparently all admired in astonishingly kind ways by Hemingway and both appreciate the cleanness of light through the African grass and leaves while thinking of the restless nights they are kept awake by the heart-shrinking depth of sound in the cough of a lion hunting...