Contents

A Brief Fisherman’s Chronology

Foreword by Jack Hemingway

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Nick Lyons

I

From up in Michigan to the Pyrenées

Big Two-Hearted River: Part I

Big Two-Hearted River: Part II

The End of Something

The Last Good Country (an excerpt)

Now I Lay Me

From A MOVEABLE FEAST . . . “Fishermen of the Seine”

From THE SUN ALSO RISES . . . “On the Irati”

From A MOVEABLE FEAST . . . “The River”

FROM GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA . . . “Three Big Trout”

FROM GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA . . . “The Stream”

II

Dispatches from Various Waters—The Soo to the Great Blue River

The Best Rainbow Trout Fishing—Toronto Star Weekly, August 28, 1920

Tuna Fishing in Spain—Toronto Star Weekly, February 18, 1922

Fishing the Rhone Canal—Toronto Daily Star, June 10, 1922

Trout Fishing in Europe—Toronto Star Weekly, November 17, 1923

Marlin Off the Morro: A Cuban Letter—Esquire, Autumn 1933

Out in the Stream: A Cuban Letter—Esquire, August 1934

On Being Shot Again: A Gulf Stream Letter—Esquire, June 1935

On the Blue Water: A Gulf Stream Letter—Esquire, April 1936

The Clark’s Fork Valley, Wyoming—Vogue, February 1939

The Great Blue River—Holiday, July 1949

“A Situation Report” (an excerpt)—Look, September 4, 1956

III

The Sea—Respite and Ultimate Challenge

from THE GARDEN OF EDEN

from ISLANDS IN THE STREAM

from THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA

Photographs

Selected Bibliography

About Ernest Hemingway