Hemingway on Hunting

by Edited by Sean Hemingway with an Introduction by Patrick Hemingway

• ISBN13: 9781585743711
• ISBN10: 1585743712
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2001-11-01
• Publisher: Lyons Press

Summary

The importance of fishing in Ernest Hemingway's life was matched only by his passion for hunting. Edited and with an introduction by his grandson Sean, and with a foreword from his son Patrick, Hemingway on Hunting chronicles Ernest Hemingway's lifelong zeal for the hunting life, from the plains of Africa to the American West.

Author Biography

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He is one of the towering authors of the twentieth century Sean Hemingway is Ernest Hemingway's grandson, and Patrick Hemingway is one of Ernest's two surviving sons. Sean Hemingway lives in New York City while Patrick makes his home in Bozeman, Montana

Table of Contents

A Brief Hunter's Chronology	ix
Foreword	xiii
Patrick Hemingway
Acknowledgments	xix
Introduction by Sean Hemingway	xxi
I From up in Michigan to the Serengeti
Fathers and Sons	3	(12)
The Three-Day Blow	15	(12)
The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber	27	(36)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro	63	(26)
From A Farewell to Arms... ``Memories of Hunting in the Abruzzi''	89	(4)
From Green Hills of Africa... ``The Way to Hunt''	93	(2)
From Green Hills of Africa... ``The Need to Hunt''	95	(2)
From Green Hills of Africa... ``The Hyena''	97	(2)
From Green Hills of Africa... ``P.O.M.'s Lion''	99	(4)
From Green Hills of Africa... ``The Rhino''	103	(4)
From Green Hills of Africa... ``The Buffalo''	107	(18)
From Green Hills of Africa... ``Pursuit and Failure''	125	(4)
From Green Hills of Africa... ``The Kudu''	129	(8)
From Green Hills of Africa... ``A Good Country''	137	(2)
From For Whom the Bell Tolls... ``Hunters versus Soldiers''	139	(6)
From Across the River and into the Trees... ``Duck Hunting on the Venetian Lagoon''	145	(10)
II Dispatches from the Field
Game-Shooting in Europe---Toronto Star Weekly, November 3, 1923	155	(8)
A.D. in Africa: A Tanganyika Letter---Esquire, April 1934	163	(4)
Shootism versus Sport: The Second Tanganyika Letter---Esquire, June 1934	167	(6)
Notes on Dangerous Game: The Third Tanganyika Letter---Esquire July 1934	173	(6)
Remembering Shooting-Flying: A Key West Letter---Esquire, February 1935	179	(8)
My Pal the Gorilla Gargantua---Ken, July 28, 1938	187	(6)
The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming---Vogue, February 1939	193	(4)
The Shot (an excerpt)---True, April 1951	197	(8)
Safari (an excerpt)---Look, January 26, 1954	205	(6)
The Christmas Gift (an excerpt)---Look, April 20, May 4, 1954	211	(6)
III A Hunter's Return to the Good Country
The Last Good Country (two excerpts)	217	(36)
An African Story (From The Garden of Eden)	253	(14)
From True at First Light... ``Miss Mary's Lion''	267	(16)
From True at First Light... ``Eagle Bait''	283	(4)
From True at First Light... ``The Leopard''	287	(6)
Selected Bibliography	293