A Life Worth Living; The Adventures of a Passionate Sportsman,9781592283354

A Life Worth Living; The Adventures of a Passionate Sportsman

by Jack Hemingway; Edited and with an introduction by Geoffrey Norman
Edition: Reprint
ISBN13: 9781592283354
ISBN10: 1592283357
Format: Trade Paper
Pub. Date: 2004-03-01
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. Jack Hemingway, son of literary legend Ernest Hemingway and one of America's best-known outdoorsmen, has written an engrossing, warm and candid memoir of his life as an incorrigible sportsman. Balancing a self-effacing humor with a delicacy of prose both graceful and knowing, along with an introduction by Geoffrey Norman and a foreword contributed by Angela Hemingway,A Life Worth Livingis a touching, passionate memoir of a lifetime spent practicing the sport he loved so much. *Includes a stunning 32-page insert featuring both black & white and color photographs *Great gift for fishing enthusiasts *Will appeal to Hemingway aficionados

Author Biography

Jack Hemingway was an avid fly fisherman and sportsman for more than sixty years, as well as the son of Ernest Hemingway. This posthumous publication is his second book. He was also the author of The Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without Papa.


Geoffrey Norman is the author of six novels and four books on nonfiction, including Two for the Summit: My Daughter, the Mountains, and Me. He has written for Outside, Esquire, Men's Journal, National Geographic, and Sports Illustrated. He is editor-at-large for Forbes FYI. He lives in Dorset, Vermont, with his wife.

Table of Contents

A Note on the Text by Nick Lyons xi
Foreword by Angela Hemingway xiii
Introduction by Geoffrey Norman xvii
ONE Selections from Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman
I. EARLY YEARS
1 An Angler from the Start
3(10)
2 From Boy to Man
13(10)
II. BEFORE THE WAR
3 Sun Valley
23(8)
4 A Michigan Sojourn
31(4)
5 Yellowstone Country
35(14)
6 Oregon and the Mills
49(8)
7 Back to Paradise...Sun Valley
57(10)
III. THE WAR YEARS
8 Abroad with the OSS
67(8)
9 Into Battle...Fly Rod in Hand
75(12)
10 Wounded and Captured
87(6)
11 A Prisoner of War
93(8)
IV. AFTER THE WAR
12 Civilian Doldrums
101(4)
13 A Second Hitch
105(6)
14 Another Hitch...This One for Life
111(4)
15 Some Hunting Sketches
115(8)
16 Papa's Son Becomes a Papa
123(4)
17 Another Start...and a Pact with Papa
127(8)
18 A Bad Ending
135(4)
19 And a New Beginning
139(10)
TWO A Sportsman's Life
I. SOME WORDS ABOUT FLY FISHING
1 Seasons of the Angler
149(10)
2 Fly Fishing Manners
159(10)
II. SOME MEMORABLE ANGLERS
3 Charles Ritz
169(4)
4 Chez Tolstoi
173(4)
5 Dermot Wilson
177(4)
III. SOME SEDUCTIVE STREAMS
6 The Loue
181(4)
7 North Umpqua
185(8)
8 Irish Rivers
193(6)
9 Icelandic Rivers
199
IV. TRAVELS WITH DAN
10 1944 Revisited
211(16)
V. IN THE FIELD: BIRDS, DOGS, AND GUNS
11 Guns and Shooting
227(4)
12 Snipe Near Cotorro
231(6)
13 A Pre-Castro Cuban Dove Shoot
237(4)
14 Partridge
241
THREE Some Tributes
A Tribute to Jack Hemingway by Tom Brokaw
247(4)
Eulogy for Jack Hemingway, December 9, 2000, by Howell Raines
251(6)
One Last Cast A Tribute by Dan Callaghan
257

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