True at First Light is a work by American novelist Ernest Hemingway released posthumously in 1999. It is designated a "fictional memoir" and describes a journey to Africa. It was edited by Patrick Hemingway who accompanied his father.
In the book, Hemingway goes on safari in Kenya in 1953, the time of the Mau Mau rebellion. The book opens with the threat of ethnic violence via a rumored Mau Mau uprising, but this threat disappears several chapters into the novel. Most of the book is concerned with his fourth wife Mary's determination to kill a certain black-maned lion and Hemingway's meditations on his fascination with a beautiful African woman named Debba, the singular beauty of the landscape, and the thrill of hunting.
See also
- Green Hills of Africa, a non-fictional account of a Hemingway safari in 1933
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