In 1953, at the height of his fame, Hemingway, the passionate big game hunter, traveled with his wife Mary to Kenya for six months. Hemingway's reports, which read almost like a novel, reveal him in his favorite roles as a big game hunter, womanizer, drinker, and lover of Africa. It is a poignant farewell to the old, mythical continent, "where things that are true in the morning light seem to be lies by noon.".