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A priceless collection of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s writing about angling.

 

From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family’s summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportage were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of Papa’s great writings about the many kinds of fishing he enjoyed—from trout in the rivers of northern Michigan to marlin in the Gulf Stream. In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway speaks of sitting in a cafe in Paris and writing about what he knew best—and when it came time to stop, he “did not want to leave the river”; the story was the unforgettable classic, “Big Two-Hearted River,” and from its first words we do not want to leave the river either. He wrote articles for the Toronto Star on fishing in Canada and Europe and, later, articles for Esquire about his growing passion for big-game fishing. And, of course, in such classic novels as The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway transformed his love of fishing and his vast knowledge of the ocean into great American literature.

 

Hemingway on Fishing is a diverse and fascinating collection of the great novelist’s writing about fishing. 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 and The Garden of Eden, this collection traces the evolution of a great writer’s passion and how it influenced his life’s work. Anglers and lovers of great writing alike will relish this landmark collection.

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Publishers Weekly
The Lyons Press releases three books this November about man's primal passion for fishing and hunting. For the first book, Hemingway on Fishing, edited and introduced by Nick Lyons and with a foreword by Hemingway's son Jack, the publisher will undertake a 100,000-copy print run ($29.95 288p ISBN 1-58574-144-2). Hemingway's love for fishing is legendary, and both his fiction and journalism are filled with tales about his favorite sport. From his famous story "Big Two-Hearted River" to selections from The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway's passion comes across, just as he did, as larger than life. A photo of Ernest Hemingway with a huge catch adorns the cover of The Greatest Fishing Stories Ever Told, a collection of 28 essays by contributors such as Hemingway, Zane Grey and Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, edited and introduced by Lamar Underwood (On Dangerous Ground) ($24.95 304p -140-X). Underwood also presents the similar formatted The Greatest Hunting Stories Ever Told, featuring essays by such avid sportsmen as William Faulkner, Theodore Roosevelt and, yes, Ernest Hemingway ($24.95 288p ISBN-141-8). Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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The name Hemingway immediately conjures visions of the burly writer posing beside some creature he's just dispatched, whether it be a beast of the field, a leviathan of the deep--or a pitcher of martinis (nice work if you can get it). This marvelous volume offers a full creel of Hemingway's best writing involving fishing gleaned from his fiction and nonfiction along with a foreword by son Jack, an introduction by editor Lyons, and 32 monochrome images. More than merely fishing stories, this collection shows Hemingway's progression as a writer: the early journalistic dispatches are fairly rough, while the later pieces are Nobel Prize-winning perfection. The book also evidences the author's keen scientific mind, and his observations on the biology of the marlin are icthyologically advanced. Hemingway was also an innovative angler who helped develop tackle and methods still used in deep sea fishing. But mostly these samples from his early Nick Adams stories and selections from The Sun Also Rises, the underrated Islands in the Stream, and The Old Man and the Sea are beautiful to read and remind you of just how adept an observer Hemingway was and the powers he had to describe events so exactly yet so simply as to put you there in his story and to make his emotions yours. Hemingway on Fishing is a trophy-sized catch to enjoy in and out of season, so grab yourself a cold one, get comfortable, and go fishing with Papa! Highly recommended. Michael Rogers, "Library Journal" Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\
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This collection of twenty-one excerpts, short stories, and magazine and newspaper articles reinforces that, above all, Hemingway the writer is inseparable from the mystically large and fascinating character who's portfolio of enthusiasms knew no bounds. Hemingway On Fishing is a delightful compilation for the Papa buff as well as the literature-minded angler who reads when not fishing. Hemingway's prose is unexpectedly fresh, even when weighed against newer outdoor writing. The best contemporary writer on fishing, Tom McGuane, The Longest Silence, seems unsteady and effete in comparison to the fullness of Hemingway on his game. What McGuane achieves with intimacy and exactitude, Hemingway overwhelms in fits of vigor."When you are drifting, out of sight of land, fishing four lines, sixty, eighty, one hundred and one hundred fifty fathoms down, in water that is seven hundred fathoms deep you never know what may take the small tuna that you use for bait, and every time the line starts to run off the reel, slowly first, then with a scream of the click as the rod bends and you feel it double and the huge weight of the friction of the line rushing through that depth of water while you pump and reel, pump and reel, pump and reel, trying to get the belly out of the line before the fish jumps, there is always a thrill that needs no danger to make it real." ("On The Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter," Esquire, April, 1936) This excerpt was Hemingway's response to a friend who dismissed angling as lacking in the excitement that, say, one experiences when being charged by an elephant. Editor Lyons says Papa upped the dosage by carrying a "Thompson submachine gun on board the Pilar, which he used with glee to kill sharks." It should be remembered that Hemingway fished in an entirely different era than today's contexture of carbon fiber rods, global positioning satellite navigation, electronic fish finders, helicopter day trips, and especially, the literary world's enchantment with fly fishing. To be sure, Hemingway would have found the current rave of flats fishing with a fly for the barely edible bonefish or permit to be utterly vapid. He was not above baitfishing with worms or grasshoppers and his penchant for killing everything he caught sounds so authoritatively prescriptive as to escape criticism. At times the prose and imagery is breathtaking. In the story, "Now I Lay Me," Hemingway places an injured Nick Adams seven miles behind the front lines of the Spanish Civil War battling a preternatural type of insomnia. "I myself did not want to sleep because I had been living for a long time with the knowledge that if I ever shut my eyes in the dark and let myself go, my soul would go out of my body." This premise supports a brilliant segue into his lying awake at night recounting a handful of trout streams, log by trout-holding log, and ends with Adams admitting, "Some nights too I made up streams, and some of them were very exciting, and it was like being awake and dreaming. Some of those streams I still remember and think that I have fished in them, and they are confused with streams I really know." Lyons' divides the book into three sections, the first of which, From Up in Michigan to the Pyrennes, includes seven freshwater works of fiction: five Nick Adams stories, and excerpts from A Moveable Feast and The Sun Also Rises. Section II collects eleven articles that appeared in various magazines and newspapers, (i.e., Esquire, Vogue, Holiday, Look, Toronto Star Weekly and Toronto Daily Star) between 1920 and 1936. Easily the most bizarre of these works is a piece in Esquire in which Hemingway relates how he manages to shoot himself through both calves with a .22 pistol while gaffing a shark. Lastly, Section III comprises three more excerpts from among Hemingway's greatest works, The Garden of Eden, Islands in the Stream, and The Old Man and the Sea. The Foreword by Jack Hemingway, Ernest's son, is candid without offering any new, personal narrative on his famous father, whereas Lyons' warm introduction showcases just how influential a role fishing served in Hemingway's life. In all, publisher, writer, angler, Lyons has compiled a remarkably complete and satisfying book, confirming that he is the right individual to mastermind this project. Hemingway On Fishing should serve to enlighten many unsuspecting readers to the unmatched richness of Ernest Hemingway. One is reminded of the prescient words of Wystan Hugh Auden, "Some books are undeservedly forgotten; none are undeservedly remembered."
From The Critics
Hemingway On Fishing gathers Hemingway's writings about angling, and while it fits into our 'literature' section quite neatly with its flowing prose and evocative descriptions, it's the fisherman who will appreciate Hemingway's passion for the sport. Nick Lyons edits the presentation and provide an introduction, Jack Hemingway the foreword in this classic treatise.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780743219181
  • Publisher: Scribner
  • Publication date: 10/22/2002
  • Edition description: Reprint
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 226,665
  • Product dimensions: 5.60 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.70 (d)

Meet the Author

Ernest Hemingway
Ernest Hemingway

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. He is one of the most recognized authors of the twentieth century.

Biography

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. Before the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded, was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerable time in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution.

During the twenties, Hemingway became a member of the group of expatriate Americans in Paris, which he described in his first important work, The Sun Also Rises (1926). Equally successful was A Farewell to Arms (1929), the study of an American ambulance officer's disillusionment in the war and his role as a deserter. Hemingway used his experiences as a reporter during the civil war in Spain as the background for his most ambitious novel, For Whom the Bell Tolls (1940). Among his later works, the most outstanding is the short novel, The Old Man and the Sea (1952), the story of an old fisherman's journey, his long and lonely struggle with a fish and the sea, and his victory in defeat.

Hemingway -- himself a great sportsman -- liked to portray soldiers, hunters, bullfighters - tough, at times primitive people whose courage and honesty are set against the brutal ways of modern society, and who in this confrontation lose hope and faith. His straightforward prose, his spare dialogue, and his predilection for understatement are particularly effective in his short stories, some of which are collected in Men Without Women (1927) and The Fifth Column and the First Forty-Nine Stories (1938). Hemingway died in Idaho in 1961.

© The Nobel Foundation 1954.

    1. Also Known As:
      Ernest Miller Hemingway (full name)
    1. Date of Birth:
      July 21, 1899
    2. Place of Birth:
      Oak Park, Illinois
    1. Date of Death:
      July 2, 1961
    2. Place of Death:
      Ketchum, Idaho

Table of Contents

A Brief Fisherman's Chronology ix
Foreword xi
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction xvii
I From up in Michigan to the Pyrenees
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I 3
Big Two-Hearted River: Part II 13
The End of Something 25
The Last Good Country (an excerpt) 31
Now I Lay Me 37
From A Moveable Feast ... "Fishermen of the Seine" 47
From The Sun Also Rises ... "On the Irati" 51
From A Moveable Feast ... "The River" 77
From Green Hills of Africa ... "Three Big Trout" 79
From Green Hills of Africa ... "The Stream" 81
II Dispatches from Various Waters--The Soo to the Great Blue River
The Best Rainbow Trout Fishing--Toronto Star Weekly, August 28, 1920 85
Tuna Fishing in Spain--Toronto Star Weekly, February 18, 1922 89
Fishing the Rhone Canal--Toronto Daily Star, June 10, 1922 91
Trout Fishing in Europe--Toronto Star Weekly, November 17, 1923 95
Marlin Off the Morro: A Cuban Letter--Esquire, Autumn 1933 101
Out in the Stream: A Cuban Letter--Esquire, August 1934 109
On Being Shot Again: A Gulf Stream Letter--Esquire, June 1935 117
On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter--Esquire, April 1936 125
The Clark's Fork Valley, Wyoming--Vogue, February 1939 135
The Great Blue River--Holiday, July 1949 139
"A Situation Report" (an excerpt)--Look, September 4, 1956 153
III The Sea--Respite and Ultimate Challenge
From The Garden of Eden 157
From Islands in the Stream 165
From The Old Man and the Sea 203
Selected Bibliography 239

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A priceless collection of the Nobel Prize–winning author’s writing about angling.

 

From childhood on, Ernest Hemingway was a passionate fisherman. He fished the lakes and creeks near the family’s summer home at Walloon Lake, Michigan, and his first stories and reportage were often about his favorite sport. Here, collected for the first time in one volume, are all of Papa’s great writings about the many kinds of fishing he enjoyed—from trout in the rivers of northern Michigan to marlin in the Gulf Stream. In A Moveable Feast, Hemingway speaks of sitting in a cafe in Paris and writing about what he knew best—and when it came time to stop, he “did not want to leave the river”; the story was the unforgettable classic, “Big Two-Hearted River,” and from its first words we do not want to leave the river either. He wrote articles for the Toronto Star on fishing in Canada and Europe and, later, articles for Esquire about his growing passion for big-game fishing. And, of course, in such classic novels as The Old Man and the Sea, Hemingway transformed his love of fishing and his vast knowledge of the ocean into great American literature.

 

Hemingway on Fishing is a diverse and fascinating collection of the great novelist’s writing about fishing. 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 and The Garden of Eden, this collection traces the evolution of a great writer’s passion and how it influenced his life’s work. Anglers and lovers of great writing alike will relishthis landmark collection.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 3, 2001

    Heming-stein fishes!

    Something's definitely lost in the re-arrangement of Hemingway work around the word 'fish' to provide a smarmy assurance for a 'hobby class': why not read the real things teh way EH arranged them? There's plenty of good criticism about EH and the outdoors (he clearly preferred hunting). Gathering EH's saltwater reporting/ journalism stuff is a service (and shows EH really WAS a marlin-bullfighter)... but really, this is fish-hatchery Hemingway.

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