Books like Green Hills of Africa
Hemingway's account of a month on safari in East Africa in 1933, hunting kudu across the plains and arguing about writing around the campfire.
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The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories
Ten stories, among them a writer dying of gangrene in an African camp who looks back at the life he wasted, and The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, about a hunting safari.
Irish Journal
Böll's sketches of Ireland in the 1950s, from a stay on Achill Island: rain, pubs, priests, emigration and the people who stayed.
The Voices of Marrakesh
Short sketches of a few weeks in Marrakesh in 1954: the souks, the blind beggars, the storytellers in the square, the Jewish quarter.
Travels with Charley
At fifty-eight Steinbeck sets out in a camper truck with his French poodle, Charley, to rediscover the America he had been writing about, coast to coast and back.
M Train
Patti Smith writes from her Greenwich Village café over black coffee, mapping what she has lost and loved: her late husband Fred, pilgrimages to writers' graves and the Continental Drift Club she belongs to.
An Angel at My Table
Janet Frame's autobiography, from a poor childhood in Oamaru through eight years in mental hospitals to her escape into writing and to Europe.
The Dark Child
Camara Laye remembers growing up in Kouroussa in French Guinea, the son of a goldsmith with magical gifts, until he leaves for school in Conakry and then for Paris.
A Walk in the Woods: Rediscovering America on the Appalachian Trail
Two middle-aged men attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail and discover that nature is harder, funnier, and more terrifying than expected.
H Is for Hawk
After her father's sudden death, a Cambridge historian buys a goshawk and withdraws into training it, alongside a reading of T. H. White's own failed attempt.
My Early Life
Churchill's account of his first thirty years: an unhappy schoolboy at Harrow, a cavalry officer in India and the Sudan, a war correspondent captured by the Boers, and a young man entering Parliament.
A Moveable Feast
Hemingway's memories of 1920s Paris, cold rooms, Gertrude Stein's salon and his friendship with Scott Fitzgerald, written forty years later and published after his death.
Native Realm
Miłosz's autobiography of his education, from a childhood in Lithuania through the war in Warsaw to his defection, as a search for a European identity.