{"product_id":"misadventures-of-a-fly-fisherman-by-jack-hemingway-autographed","title":"Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman by Jack Hemingway - Signed Hemingway Family Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJack Hemingway's own account of a life spent on rivers — and of growing up as Ernest Hemingway's eldest son.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in 1986, \u003cem\u003eMisadventures of a Fly Fisherman: My Life With and Without Papa\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is funnier than you would expect, and unguarded about the parts that were not funny at all.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eAbout these copies\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003ch4\u003eDetails\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHardcover, 1986 Taylor Publishing edition\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSigned by Angela Hemingway Charles, Patrick Hemingway and Brendan Hemingway\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLimited-edition bookplate\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten by Jack Hemingway (1923–2000)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eISBN 978-0-87833-379-0\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEnglish\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Ernest Hemingway Fishing Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":60115010552192,"sku":"M-EHMISB","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0989\/6040\/8960\/files\/misadventures-fly-fisherman-front.png?v=1791916356","url":"https:\/\/ernesthemingwayfishing.com\/products\/misadventures-of-a-fly-fisherman-by-jack-hemingway-autographed","provider":"Ernest Hemingway Fishing Co","version":"1.0","type":"link"}