A Life Worth Living; The Adventures of a Passionate Sportsman,9781585743254

A Life Worth Living; The Adventures of a Passionate Sportsman

by Jack Hemingway
ISBN13: 9781585743254
ISBN10: 1585743259
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2002-10-01
Publisher(s): Lyons Press
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Summary

A memoir of a sportsman's life from the son of one of the twentieth century's greatest writers.

Author Biography

Jack Hemingway was an avid fly fisherman and sportsman for more than sixty years, as well as the son of Ernest Hemingway. His passing in 2000 was reported on television and in newspapers and magazines around the world

Table of Contents

A Note on the Text xi
Nick Lyons
Foreword xiii
Angela Hemingway
Introduction xvii
Geoffrey Norman
Selections from Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman
Early Years
An Angler from the Start
3(10)
From Boy to Man
13(10)
Before the War
Sun Valley
23(8)
A Michigan Sojourn
31(4)
Yellowstone Country
35(14)
Oregon and the Mills
49(8)
Back to Paradise . . . Sun Valley
57(10)
The War Years
Abroad with the OSS
67(8)
Into Battle . . . Fly Rod in Hand
75(12)
Wounded and Captured
87(6)
A Prisoner of War
93(8)
After the War
Civilian Doldrums
101(4)
A Second Hitch
105(6)
Another Hitch . . . This One for Life
111(4)
Some Hunting Sketches
115(8)
Papa's Son Becomes a Papa
123(4)
Another Start . . . and a Pact with Papa
127(8)
A Bad Ending
135(4)
And a New Beginning
139(10)
A Sportsman's Life
Some Words About Fly Fishing
Seasons of the Angler
149(10)
Fly Fishing Manners
159(10)
Some Memorable Anglers
Charles Ritz
169(4)
Chez Tolstoi
173(4)
Dermot Wilson
177(4)
Some Seductive Streams
The Loue
181(4)
North Umpqua
185(8)
Irish Rivers
193(6)
Icelandic Rivers
199(12)
Travels with Dan
1944 Revisited
211(16)
In the Field: Birds, Dogs, and Guns
Guns and Shooting
227(4)
Snipe Near Cotorro
231(6)
A Pre-Castro Cuban Dove Shoot
237(4)
Partridge
241(6)
Some Tributes
A Tribute to Jack Hemingway
247(4)
Tom Brokaw
Eulogy for Jack Hemingway, December 9, 2000
251(6)
Howell Raines
One Last Cast A Tribute
257
Dan Callaghan

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