5 Novels about Kilimanjaro

There are plenty of guidebooks out there to buy and read about Kilimanjaro but fancy something different? Looking for a contrast, these novels provide a different genre and an interesting insight!

This short story is praised as one of Hemigway’s greatest books. A film was released in 1952 starring Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck. The book tells the story of a writer who is at the end of his life after he contracts gangrene from a scratch on his leg. The writer sees his life flash before his eyes and how he reflects on the choices he has made in life.

The Amazon summary states this is “a Fast-paced novel relating the adventures of an ex-patriate American trying to con his way through politically explosive Tanzania”

This book tells the story of a Swedish couple who travel to the Great Rift Valley in East Africa in the late 1970’s. It explores the development and evolution of humankind in Africa.

This book is a non-fiction novel and was posthumously published from an unfinished manuscript. It is based on Hemingway’s diaries that he wrote on his last safari.

This is described as a spectacular photographic book. The author takes the reader on a journey into Africa to look for the elusive unicorn living on Kilimanjaro.