Hemingway's Guns

The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway

Silvio Calabi, Steve Helsley, Roger Sanger (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

284 Seiten

2017 | 2nd edition
Derrydale Press (Verlag)
978-1-58667-159-4 (ISBN)

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Ernest Hemingway's friend AE Hotchner once described a 'yellowed four-by-five picture of Ernest', shown to him by Hemingway, 'aged five or six, holding a small rifle. Written on the back in his mother's hand was the notation, "Ernest was taught to shoot by Pa when 2.5 years and when 4 could handle a pistol".'

Firearms and shooting infused Hemingway's existence and thus his writing. He was a member of his high school gun club and went to war when he was eighteen. he hunted elk, deer, and bears in the American West and went on two extended African safaris, which figured hugely in his writing and changed his life. To the day of his death, Hemingway remained an avid hunter, first-class wingshot, and capable rifleman.

Following years of research from Sun Valley to Key West and from Nairobi, Kenya, to Hemingway's home in Cuba, this volume significantly expands what we know about Hemingway's shotguns, rifles, and pistols — the tools of the trade that proved themselves in his hunting, target shooting, and in his writing. Weapons are some of our most culturally and emotionally potent artifacts. The choice of gun can be as personal as the car one drives or the person one marries — another expression of status, education, experience, skill, and personal style. Including short excerpts from Hemingway's works, these stories of his guns and rifles tell us much about him as a lifelong expert hunter and shooters, and as a man.

A writer, editor, and publisher for more than 30 years, Silvio Calabi lives on the coast of Maine and hunts around the world. Roger Sanger, from California and Idaho, is an aficionado of fine guns and the founder of the California Side By Side Society. Steve Helsley, also from California, is a consultant to the National Rifle Association and a firearms historian and photographer. They have collaborated on many articles for shooting magazines and they founded and produced the Gold Medal Concours d'Elegance of Fine Guns and the Western Side By Side Championships.

Hemingway’s Guns — A Foreword
Introduction
A Firearms Vocabulary
The Cuban Connection
The Model 12 Pumpguns
Guns for Girls & Boys—the .410s
Winchester Model 21 Shotguns
Two Browning Superposeds
Browning Automatic Shotguns
A Pair & a Single—Merkel Over/Unders
The Beretta S3 Over/Under
The Griffin & Howe .30-06 Springfield
Mannlicher-Schoenauer Rifles
The .577 Nitro Express (& Other Double Rifles)
All Those Colt .22 Pistols
Winchester & Other .22 Rifles
A Thompson Submachine Gun
A Big-Bore Mauser, or Two
The W. & C. Scott & Son Pigeon Gun
Various: Adamy, Darne, Springfield, Arrizabalaga, “Alba” et al.
More Questions, Always
With Gratitude
Citations
Bibliography

Erscheinungsdatum	24.10.2016
Zusatzinfo	60 Halftones, color; 150 Halftones, black and white
Verlagsort	Missoula
Sprache	englisch
Maße	209 x 267 mm
Gewicht	1048 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Angeln / Jagd
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport
ISBN-10	1-58667-159-6 / 1586671596
ISBN-13	978-1-58667-159-4 / 9781586671594
Zustand	Neuware