Prowling Papa's Waters: A Hemingway Odyssey [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Language: English

Published by Longstreet Press, Atlanta, Georgia, 1992

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Fine unread condition maroon boards, dark blue spine and gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped photographic and color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Permissions; Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction; Epilogue and Sources. Also includes a as new condition vintage July 12-21, 1996 Hemingway Days Festival, Key West, Florida pamphlet. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. "H. Lea Lawrence hereby invites you to join him on a fascinating pilgrimage to Ernest Hemingway's favorite fishing haunts. Spiced with new anecdotes and interviews gleaned from the United States, Europe, and the Caribbean, Prowling Papa's Waters sheds a fresh and welcome light on America's best known writer. This unique chronicle of Hemingway at his favorite pastime is sure to delight Hemingway buffs, anglers, and all armchair travelers. Beginning with Hemingway's initiation into the outdoors at his family's cabin on Lake Walloon in upper Michigan, Lawrence's odyssey recreates Hemingway's angling exploits in Europe, Key West, Cuba and the Caribbean, and the American West. Forty five photographs put readers in touch with Hemingway waters great and small, from rushing trout streams to the majestic Gulf Stream. The Hemingway of legend is in fine form here, doing battle with the giant billfish of the Caribbean, but Lawrence's narrative is by no means limited to what Hemingway caught and where. Essential to the story are the people he gathered about him (John Dos Passos, Maxwell Perkins, and the rest of "the Mob"), the work he was engaged in at the time, and, of course, the succession of women in his life. Hemingway insisted that any good story has to include three elements: the time, the place, and how the weather was. Prowling Papa's Waters offers all three - and much more." - from the inner front jacket flap.…

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Title
Prowling Papa's Waters: A Hemingway Odyssey [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
Author
Lawrence, H. Lea
Publisher
Longstreet Press, Atlanta, Georgia
Publication year
1992
Condition
Fine
Dust jacket
Fine
Binding
Hardcover
Language
English
Illustrator
Clayton, Al (jacket photograph); Dible, Jill (jacket design)
Edition
1st Edition
Printing
1st Printing
Dimensions
8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall

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