The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Short Story

The Snows of Kilimanjaro: Short Story

Ernest Hemingway

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The novelette length "short story" originally published by Esquire in 1936. "Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai "Ngaje Ngai," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude."

Publication Year: 1936


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