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Tables of Contents for A Life Worth Living
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
A Note on the Text by Nick Lyons
xi
Foreword by Angela Hemingway
xiii
Introduction by Geoffrey Norman
xvii
ONE Selections from Misadventures of a Fly Fisherman
I. EARLY YEARS
1 An Angler from the Start
3
10
2 From Boy to Man
13
10
II. BEFORE THE WAR
3 Sun Valley
23
8
4 A Michigan Sojourn
31
4
5 Yellowstone Country
35
14
6 Oregon and the Mills
49
8
7 Back to Paradise...Sun Valley
57
10
III. THE WAR YEARS
8 Abroad with the OSS
67
8
9 Into Battle...Fly Rod in Hand
75
12
10 Wounded and Captured
87
6
11 A Prisoner of War
93
8
IV. AFTER THE WAR
12 Civilian Doldrums
101
4
13 A Second Hitch
105
6
14 Another Hitch...This One for Life
111
4
15 Some Hunting Sketches
115
8
16 Papa's Son Becomes a Papa
123
4
17 Another Start...and a Pact with Papa
127
8
18 A Bad Ending
135
4
19 And a New Beginning
139
10
TWO A Sportsman's Life
I. SOME WORDS ABOUT FLY FISHING
1 Seasons of the Angler
149
10
2 Fly Fishing Manners
159
10
II. SOME MEMORABLE ANGLERS
3 Charles Ritz
169
4
4 Chez Tolstoi
173
4
5 Dermot Wilson
177
4
III. SOME SEDUCTIVE STREAMS
6 The Loue
181
4
7 North Umpqua
185
8
8 Irish Rivers
193
6
9 Icelandic Rivers
199
IV. TRAVELS WITH DAN
10 1944 Revisited
211
16
V. IN THE FIELD: BIRDS, DOGS, AND GUNS
11 Guns and Shooting
227
4
12 Snipe Near Cotorro
231
6
13 A Pre-Castro Cuban Dove Shoot
237
4
14 Partridge
241
THREE Some Tributes
A Tribute to Jack Hemingway by Tom Brokaw
247
4
Eulogy for Jack Hemingway, December 9, 2000, by Howell Raines
251
6
One Last Cast A Tribute by Dan Callaghan
257