The Snow Of Kilimanjaro
The hero of the story is a writer on safari in Africa.He has been wounded
Across the River and Into the Trees
The Snows
of Kilimanjaro
by a thorn and is infected, dying a slow death. The prospect of this slow death and his inability to do anything in the way of physical activity causes the writer to think about his past and his memories.
He has experienced many wonderful things, but has not written about them. In the course of the story he even begins to blame the woman with him for his failings as a writer. It is ironic that he loves to write and yet resists the actual process.
The book The Snows of Kilimanjaro and Other Stories contains ten stories. The title story was written in 1936, but the collection was published in 1961. A film by the same name was produced in 1956.