Hemingway Adventure

Entebbe, Uganda

We leave Entebbe for London tomorrow. The bad weather has cleared, the oppressive humidity lifted and, after bone-rattling rides through the bush, the pool at the Lake Victoria Hotel looks inviting.

Though we've not been here long it seems like a lifetime. Africa has a way of imposing its own time scale, reducing our busy western lives to its own pace, its own stately rhythm. In Africa the concept of the eternal seems much more meaningful. It also allows you more time to take things in. Events become clearer and impressions sharper and memories more indelible.

Perhaps that's the way it was for Hemingway. He spent less than ten months of his life in Africa and yet from it came two books (one, admittedly, posthumous) and two of his greatest short stories - 'The Snows of Kilimanjaro' and 'The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber'.

Life in Key West and Cuba may have been safer, but never as intense.

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Series: Hemingway Adventure
Chapter: Entebbe, Uganda
Country/sea: Uganda
Place: Entebbe
Book page no: 194

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