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”

Photographs

Selected Bibliography

About Ernest Hemingway