Hemingway the hunter This book grew out of one Hemingway sentence, a seemingly casual but obviously rich aside in Under Kilimanjaro, a book about an …
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Hemingway showing off his Thompson submachine gun. The unidentified spectator looks nervous; the photographer may have been even more so. JFK Library A hunter holding …
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What prompted you to write this book? In September 2007 Silvio Calabi received an email from a professor in the Dept. of English & American …
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The PH in the “Short and Happy Life of Francis Macomber” used a big bolt-action (.500 Jeffery or .505 Gibbs?). Do you know of an …
Hemingway’s Guns: The Sporting Arms of Ernest Hemingway Ernest Hemingway is an enduring celebrity—a mythic writer and alpha male, he drew themes of action, adventure, …