A brief fisherman's chronology -- Foreword / Jack Hemingway -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Nick Lyons -- I. From up in Michigan to the Pyrenées. Big two-hearted river : part 1 ; Big two-hearted river : part 2 ; The end of something ; The last good country (an excerpt) ; Now I lay me ; Fisherman of the Seine from A moveable feast ; On the Irati from The sun also rises ; The river from A moveable feast ; Three big trout from Green hills of Africa ; The stream from Green hills of Africa -- II. Dispatches from various waters--the Soo to the Great Blue River. The best rainbow trout fishing from Toronto Star Weekly, August 28, 1920 ; Tuna fishing in Spain from Toronto Star Weekly, February 18, 1922 ; Fishing the Rhone Canal from Toronto Daily Star, June 10, 1922 ; Trout fishing in Europe from Toronto Star Weekly, November 17, 1923 ; Marlin off the Morro : a Cuban letter from Esquire, Autumn 1933 ; Out in the stream : a Cuban letter from Esquire, August 1934 ; On being shot again : a Gulf Stream letter from Esquire, June 1935 ; On the blue water : a Gulf Stream letter from Esquire, April 1936 ; The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming from Vogue, February 1939 ; The Great Blue River from Holiday, July 1949 ; A situation report (excerpt) from Look, September 4, 1956 -- III. The sea--respite and ultimate challenge. From The garden of Eden ; From Islands in the stream ; From The old man and the sea -- Selected bibliography.
Summary:
Hemingway on Fishing is an encompassing, diverse, and fascinating assemblage. From the early Nick Adams stories and the memorable chapters on fishing the Irati River in The Sun Also Rises to such late novels as Islands in the Stream, this collection traces the evolution of a great writer's passion, the range of his interests, and the sure use he made of fishing, transforming it into the stuff of great literature."--Jacket.
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