Hemingway on Fishing

by Hemingway, Ernest; Lyons, Nick

• ISBN13: 9780743219181
• ISBN10: 074321918X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-11-05
• Publisher: Scribner

Summary

From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family's summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportages were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of his great writings about the many kinds of fishing he did -- from trout in the rivers of northern Michigan to marlin in the Gulf Stream.InA Moveable Feast,Hemingway speaks of sitting in a cafe in Paris and writing about what he knew best -- and when it came time to stop, he "did not want to leave the river." The story was the unforgettable classic, "Big Two-Hearted River," and from its first words we do not want to leave the river either. He also wrote articles for theToronto Staron fishing in Canada and Europe and, later, articles forEsquireabout his growing passion for big-game fishing. His last books,The Old Man and the SeaandIslands in the Stream,celebrate his vast knowledge of the ocean and his affection for its great denizens.Hemingway on Fishingis an encompassing, diverse, and fascinating collection. From the early Nick Adams stories and the memorable chapters on fishing the Irati River inThe Sun Also Risesto such late novels asIslands in the Stream,this collection traces the evolution of a great writer's passion; the range of his interests; the sure use he made of fishing, transforming it into the stuff of great literature.Anglers and lovers of great writing alike will welcome this important collection.

Author Biography

Ernest Hemingway won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He is one of the towering authors of the twentieth century.

Table of Contents

A Brief Fisherman's Chronology	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xv
Introduction	p. xvii
From up in Michigan to the Pyrenees
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I	p. 3
Big Two-Hearted River: Part II	p. 13
The End of Something	p. 25
The Last Good Country (an excerpt)	p. 31
Now I Lay Me	p. 37
From A Moveable Feast ... "Fishermen of the Seine"	p. 47
From The Sun Also Rises ... "On the Irati"	p. 51
From A Moveable Feast ... "The River"	p. 77
From Green Hills of Africa ... "Three Big Trout"	p. 79
From Green Hills of Africa ... "The Stream"	p. 81
Dispatches from Various Waters--The Soo to the Great Blue River
The Best Rainbow Trout Fishing--Toronto Star Weekly, August 28, 1920	p. 85
Tuna Fishing in Spain--Toronto Star Weekly, February 18, 1922	p. 89
Fishing the Rhone Canal--Toronto Daily Star, June 10, 1922	p. 91
Trout Fishing in Europe--Toronto Star Weekly, November 17, 1923	p. 95
Marlin Off the Morro: A Cuban Letter--Esquire, Autumn 1933	p. 101
Out in the Stream: A Cuban Letter--Esquire, August 1934	p. 109
On Being Shot Again: A Gulf Stream Letter--Esquire, June 1935	p. 117
On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter--Esquire, April 1936	p. 125
The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming--Vogue, February 1939	p. 135
The Great Blue River--Holiday, July 1949	p. 139
"A Situation Report" (an excerpt)--Look, September 4, 1956	p. 153
The Sea--Respite and Ultimate Challenge
From The Garden of Eden	p. 157
From Islands in the Stream	p. 165
From The Old Man and the Sea	p. 203
Selected Bibliography	p. 239
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