Ahimsa in the African Savanna

Ernest Hemmingway’s novel, True at First Light, explores the relationship of human beings with majestic creatures in the wild. Throughout the novel, the main characters are actively hunting a lion in the African Savanna. 

The completion of the Uganda Railway in 1901 provided easier access to the interior highlands of British East Africa (now known as Kenya). The white hunter (European professional big game hunters in the first half of the 20thcentury) served paying customers as a guide to those who wanted to hunt plentiful large animals like elephants, lions, and rhinoceroses.

Ernest Hemingway en safari, en 1934

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