Ernest Hemingway

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Run Bull Run: Exploring Pre-Festival Pamplona

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Pamplona is a city on the edge of a 'wicked combination' of blood sport and adrenaline. Peer through the keyhole of the bullring five days before San Fermín begins.

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Pews, Bunks, and Bronze: Finding Hemingway in a Pamplona, Spain

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Sleep in a 16th-century church and walk in Hemingway's footsteps! Explore Pamplona's iconic Café Iruña and Plaza del Castillo on a unique Camino de Santiago journey.

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Pintxos and Prose: Finding Hemingway in Burguete

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Walk in Hemingway's footsteps in Burguete (Auritz). From Basque pintxos to the famous inscribed piano at Hostal Burguete, discover this literary Camino stop.

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Lake Manyara: A Good Park for a Safari Start

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Is Lake Manyara truly the home of tree-climbing lions? Explore Tanzania's hidden gem and discover why this bird-watcher's paradise is the perfect safari start.

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Stork Swarm in Mtowambu

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Stork Swarm in Mtowambu

Swarms of giant storks were suddenly everywhere. They were beyond counting. In the hundreds? For sure. Thousands? Maybe. Some circled slowly overhead, great wings outstretched. Many more rested, nested, and clattered their bills from poo-spangled trees. 

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The Safari as Journey: My Introduction to Bush Country

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The Safari as Journey: My Introduction to Bush Country

We pitched our duffels and then ourselves into Saidi's knobby-wheeled truck. Saidi found the gear and we lurched forward. Our aim was to encounter the wildness of East Africa, God-willing, in a bloodless way.

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What we Learned from Kilimanjaro's Shrinking Ice Cap

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What we Learned from Kilimanjaro's Shrinking Ice Cap

Explore three takeaways about the arrival and disappearance of Kilimanjaro's icy cap.

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The most interesting man in the world

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The most interesting man in the world

Ernest Hemingway dangled a riddle of death at the front end of his short story, "The Snows of Kilimanjaro." But what kind of epigraph is this? A freeze-dried window decoration? A chewy historical tidbit? The most interesting man in the world may have solved the riddle.