Henry James on Safari in Ernest Hemingway's Green Hills of Africa

At the climax of Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway realizes that Africa means more to him than just a location to hunt, or even to write: it is the one place left where "it pleased me to live, to really live. Not just let my life pass." This insight seems based not only on the experiences recounted in the narrative up to that point, but also on the advice of Strether to Little Bilham at the heart of Henry James's The Ambassadors, where Strether tells his young friend, "Live all you can; it's a mistake not to."