Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman by Jack Hemingway - Signed Hemingway Family Edition

Jack Hemingway's own account of a life spent on rivers — and of growing up as Ernest Hemingway's eldest son.

Published in 1986, Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without Papa is the memoir of John Hadley Nicanor Hemingway — "Bumby" to his father, Jack to everyone else. It is a fishing book that keeps wandering off into history, and a history book that keeps wandering back to the water.

He writes about a Paris childhood spent among his father's friends, about learning to cast long before he could reasonably be trusted with a rod, and about the long shadow of a famous surname. He writes about the war — parachuting into occupied France with the OSS, a fly rod in his kit by his own account, and the capture and imprisonment that followed. And he writes about the decades afterwards in Idaho, as a conservationist who spent as much of his life arguing for rivers as fishing them.

It is funnier than you would expect, and unguarded about the parts that were not funny at all.

About these copies

Each copy is signed by Angela Hemingway Charles, Patrick Hemingway and Brendan Hemingway, and carries a limited-edition bookplate. They are unsold originals of the 1986 Taylor Publishing edition, held back rather than put into the trade. There are very few, and no way to get more.

Details

• Hardcover, 1986 Taylor Publishing edition
• Signed by Angela Hemingway Charles, Patrick Hemingway and Brendan Hemingway
• Limited-edition bookplate
• Written by Jack Hemingway (1923–2000)
• ISBN 978-0-87833-379-0
• English