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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
A Brief Hunter's Chronology
Foreword by Patrick Hemingway
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Seán Hemingway
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
From A Farewell to Arms...
"Memories of Hunting in the Abruzzi"
From Green Hills of Africa..."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 For Whom the Bell Tolls..."Hunters versus Soldiers"
From Across the River and Into the Trees..."Duck Hunting on the Venetian Lagoon"
II
Dispatches from the Field
Game-Shooting in Europe -- The Toronto Daily Star, November 3, 1923
A. D. in Africa: A Tanganyika Letter -- Esquire, April 1934
Shootism versus Sport: The Second Tanganyika Letter -- Esquire, June 1934
Notes on Dangerous Game: The Third Tanganyika Letter -- Esquire, July 1934
Remembering Shooting-Flying: A Key West Letter -- Esquire, February 1935
My Pal the Gorilla Gargantua -- Ken, July 28, 1938
The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming -- Vogue, February 1939
The Shot (an excerpt) -- True, April 1951
Safari (an excerpt) -- Look, January 26, 1954
The Christmas Gift (an excerpt) -- Look, April 20, May 4, 1954
III
A Hunter's Return to the Good Country
The Last Good Country (two excerpts)
From The Garden of Eden...An African Story
From True at First Light..."Miss Mary's Lion"
From True at First Light..."Eagle Bait"
From True at First Light..."The Leopard"
Selected Bibliography
