Hemingway on Hunting
Published on 22. May 2014
336 pages
978-1-4767-7047-5 (ISBN)
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Ernest Hemingway's lifelong zeal for hunting is reflected in his masterful works of fiction, from his famous account of an African safari in ?The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber? to passages about duck hunting in Across the River and into the Trees. For Hemingway, hunting was more than just a passion; it was a means through which to explore our humanity and man's relationship to nature. Courage, awe, respect, precision, patience?these were the virtues that Hemingway honored in the hunter, and his ability to translate these qualities into prose has produced some of the strongest accounts of hunting of all time.
Hemingway on Hunting offers the full range of Hemingway's writing about the hunting life. With selections from his best-loved novels and stories, along with journalistic pieces from such magazines as Esquire and Vogue, this spectacular collection is a must-have for anyone who has ever tasted the thrill of the hunt?in person or on the page.
Hemingway on Hunting offers the full range of Hemingway's writing about the hunting life. With selections from his best-loved novels and stories, along with journalistic pieces from such magazines as Esquire and Vogue, this spectacular collection is a must-have for anyone who has ever tasted the thrill of the hunt?in person or on the page.
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Ernest Hemingway did more to change the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. Publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established Hemingway as one of the greatest literary lights of the twentieth century. His classic novel The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. Known for his larger-than-life personality and his passions for bullfighting, fishing, and big-game hunting, he died in Ketchum, Idaho on July 2, 1961.
Content
- Intro
- Dedication
- A Brief Hunter's Chronology
- Foreword by Patrick Hemingway
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction by Seán Hemingway
- Part I: From up in Michigan to the Serengeti
- Fathers and Sons
- The Three-Day Blow
- The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber
- The Snows of Kilimanjaro
- "Memories of Hunting in the Abruzzi" (from A 'Farewell to Arms')
- "The Way to Hunt" (from 'Green Hills of Africa')
- "The Need to Hunt" (from 'Green Hills of Africa')
- "The Hyena" (from 'Green Hills of Africa')
- "P. O. M.'s Lion" (from 'Green Hills of Africa')
- "The Rhino" (from 'Green Hills of Africa')
- "The Buffalo" (from 'Green Hills of Africa')
- "Pursuit and Failure" (from 'Green Hills of Africa')
- "The Kudu" (from 'Green Hills of Africa')
- "A Good Country" (from 'Green Hills of Africa')
- "Hunters versus Soldiers" (from 'For Whom the Bell Tolls')
- "Duck Hunting on the Venetian Lagoon" (from 'Across the River and Into the Trees')
- Part II: Dispatches from the Field
- Game-Shooting in Europe
- A. D. in Africa: A Tanganyika Letter
- Shootism versus Sport: The Second Tanganyika Letter
- Notes on Dangerous Game: The Third Tanganyika Letter
- Remembering Shooting-Flying: A Key West Letter
- My Pal the Gorilla Gargantua
- The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming
- The Shot (an excerpt)
- Safari (an excerpt)
- The Christmas Gift (an excerpt)
- Part III: A Hunter's Return to the Good Country
- The Last Good Country (two excerpts)
- An African Story (from 'The Garden of Eden')
- "Miss Mary's Lion" (from 'True At First Light')
- "Eagle Bait" (from 'True at First Light')
- "The Leopard" (from 'True at First Light')
- Photographs
- Selected Bibliography
- About Ernest Hemingway
- Copyright
