Daniel Streeter, Charles P. Curtis, and Stewart White in Green Hills of Africa

Abstract

Although Ernest Hemingway is not usually considered a source-bound writer, in Green Hills of Africa Hemingway employed by name three safari writers both within his discussion of literary art and as sources for the African experience overall: Daniel W. Streeter, Charles P. Curtis, Jr., and Stewart Edward White. Amateur adventurer Streeter’s facetious (and often offensive) tone in Denatured Africa led Hemingway into similar patterns of treating hunting and race. In four different books but especially in The Rediscovered Country, professional adventure writer White offered Hemingway examples of landscape and hunting experiences that ranged from journalistic to literary. And Hemingway’s personal friend Curtis not only underpinned Green Hills through the book he wrote with his brother, Hunting in Africa East and West, but also was an enthusiastic supporter of Hemingway’s African adventure both as it unfolded and as it became a book.