RIP

You fueled my interest in Africa.

Ditto, Ernest (along with Robert Ruark, Wally Johnson, Peter Capstick, Teddy Roosevelt, Craig Boddington, Peter Flack, Pondoro Taylor, James Mellon, Lou Hallamore, Gregor Woods, J.A. Hunter, Kevin "Doctari" Robertson, . . . . .)

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Originally posted by Use Enough Gun:
Ditto, Ernest (along with Robert Ruark, Wally Johnson, Peter Capstick, Teddy Roosevelt, Craig Boddington, Peter Flack, Pondoro Taylor, James Mellon, Lou Hallamore, Gregor Woods, J.A. Hunter, Kevin "Doctari" Robertson, . . . . .)

Somebody (AR?) should put out a calendar noting these folks, as well as Selous, Gordon-Cumming, Cornwallis-Harris and plenty of others. I'd buy one.

S.

Rest in peace Papa.

I will raise a mojito in his honor this weekend. They just don't make 'em like him anymore.

N'gagi,
Ernest Hemingway would RIP better if you spelled his name with one "m."

Happy Birthday Papa...

Thanks for.... The Grey Ghost, The Old Man, Fishing, Hunting, Travel, Food, Drink and your sense of adventure!

"There is no friend as loyal as a book." E. Hemingway

Regards,
Dave

Photograph of Ernest Hemingway sitting at a table writing while at his campsite in Kenya, Africa 1953.


Hall and lounge of Ernest Hemingway''s house; wall mounted heads of African antelopes.
San Francisco de Paula, Cuba. Copyright and Credit: www.tropix.co.uk
http://www.tropix.co.uk/database/more_info.asp?PhotoID=CUB87ASH10_05

May he rest in peace. I hope he's on a long safari in the happy hunting grounds.

-Bob F.

Hemingway was a man who many more should try to be like. A good writer, fisher, hunter ,intelligence officer, gourmand (one who enjoy life through good food and drink)

And he wrote about what men like, war, women,hunting, fishing.

I have just started to write proffesionnally, saving up for Africa , what more , yes a 12 month safari would be in the Hemingway style.

Around the ancient camp fire they sit, the men who made other realise that if thay can hunt ,so can you go for hunting.

Happy belated birthday Papa, you were and still are the best.

CFA

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Originally posted by mr rigby:
Hemingway was a man who many more should try to be like. A good writer, fisher, hunter ,intelligence officer, gourmand (one who enjoy life through good food and drink)

And he wrote about what men like, war, women,hunting, fishing.

Don't forget Boxing!!

From the Green Hills of Africa

“ All I wanted to do now was to get back to Africa. We had not left it yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already.

Now looking out the tunnel of trees over the ravine at the sky and white clouds moving across in the wind, 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 there is, not, you can have, and you want more and more, to have, and be, and live in, to possess now again for always, for that long, sudden-ended always; making time stand still, sometimes so very still afterwards you wait to hear it move, and it is slowly starting. But you are not alone, because if you ever have really loved her happy and un-tragic, she loves you always, no matter whom she loves nor where she goes she loves you more. So if you have loved some woman and some country you are very fortunate and, if you die afterwards it makes no difference.

Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly.â€

I've read all of his major novels and most of the collections of short stories. He needed a bit less booze and a bit more caffeine, but was a heck of a writer. I personally believe that he was the most influential writer in the English language during the 20th century, in regards to his effect on popular writing style.

I've still never seen a bullfight in person, though.

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