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Hemingway and Bimini : the Birth of Sport Fishing at ""The End of the World""
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Sarasota :
Pineapple Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Hemingway and Bimini:; The Birth of Sport Fishing at "The End of the World"; Dedication; Preface; I. A Brief History of Bimini: Beginnings to 1933; The Lost City of Atlantis; The First Natives and Contact; The Famous Fountain of Youth; "The Golden Age of Piracy" Dawns in the Bahamas; Slavery, War, Wrecking, and Blockade-Running; Prohibition and Rum-Running; II. Setting the Stage: How Bimini Became the "Sport Fishing Capital of the World"; Why Bimini?; The Main Players Take the Stage; The First Pivotal Catches; Hemingway Contributes to American Big Game Fishing
- "I'll Be of Unsavoury Parentage. I'm Shot."III. Hemingway's Three Bimini Summers: Big-Game Fishing's "Camelot"; The First Unmutilated Tuna; The Hemingway-Lerner Friendship Begins; The Lerner Marine Laboratory; The "Big Fat Slob" of Bimini; Bimini Boxing; The Sharks and the Tommy Gun; The Bimini Chronology; IV. The Early Fishing Clubs and the Emergence of the IGFA; The Salt Water Anglers of America; The Bahamas Marlin and Tuna Club; The IGFA Is Born; The Question of Hemingway's Contribution; Hemingway as Conservationist; Women as Equal Competitors; Rules and Equity
- Hemingway's IGFA Hall of Fame InductionBig Changes for the IGFA; V. The Great Bimini Mystery: Did Hemingway Return?; The Critical Consensus; The Bahamas Trip: June 1949; The Spanish Civil War; Marital Angst, a New Wife, and an International Move; Career Intervention; The Big Fish Have Gone?; A Conquered Fishing Ground?; Hemingway's Obsession Cools?; Questioning Loyalties; Bimini Was Still Calling; Lerner Hospitality; So, Did Hemingway Come Back?; VI: The King's Highway Property Question Unraveled; The Heilner-Lerner Argument; The IGFA Vice Presidential Snafu
- VII. The Hemingway Legacy in BiminiImportant Historical Sites; Bimini Shark Lab; Famous Faces; The Big-Game Fishing Economy; Afterword; A Chronology: Important Dates and Events; Acknowledgments; Works Cited; Letters Cited; About the Author; Index