Annemarie Horschitz-Horst Orden de los libros (cronológico)

Enthält die Erzählungen "Die Hauptstadt der Welt", "Schnee auf dem Kilimandscharo" und "Oben in Michigan".

El coronel Cantwell viaja a Trieste a cazar patos junto a unos amigos. La II Guerra Mundial ha quedado atrás, sin embargo los recuerdos de tan devastadora campaña siguen latiendo en el aire. En la ciudad italiana conoce a una hermosa joven, cuya esplendorosa belleza consigue deslumbrarle e inicia lo que para él es un romance sin esperanzas, dado que Cantwell es muy consciente de la enfermedad que debilita su corazón y hace que en verdad esté en la recta final de su vida.

Contains some of Hemingway's most acclaimed and popular works of short fiction. From haunting tragedy on the snow-capped peak of Kilimanjaro to brutal sensationalism in the bullring, from rural America to the heart of war-ravaged Europe, each of these spare and powerful stories is a feat of imagination and a masterpiece of description,

Green Hills of Africa is Ernest Hemingway's lyrical journal of a month on safari in the great game country of East Africa, where he and his wife Pauline journeyed in December 1933. Hemingway's well-known interest in - and fascination with - big-game hunting is magnificently captured in this evocative account of his trip. It is an examination of the lure of the hunt and an impassioned portrait of the glory of the African landscape and of the beauty of a wilderness that was, even then, being threatened by the incursions of man.