Hemingway and Bimini : The Birth of Sport Fishing at "the End of the World".

Intro -- Hemingway and Bimini: -- The Birth of Sport Fishing at "The End of the World" -- Dedication -- Preface -- I. A Brief History of Bimini: Beginnings to 1933 -- The Lost City of Atlantis -- The First Natives and Contact -- The Famous Fountain of Youth -- "The Golden Age of Piracy" Dawns in the Bahamas -- Slavery, War, Wrecking, and Blockade-Running -- Prohibition and Rum-Running -- II. Setting the Stage: How Bimini Became the "Sport Fishing Capital of the World" -- Why Bimini? -- The Main Players Take the Stage -- The First Pivotal Catches -- Hemingway Contributes to American Big Game Fishing -- "I'll Be of Unsavoury Parentage. I'm Shot." -- III. Hemingway's Three Bimini Summers: Big-Game Fishing's "Camelot" -- The First Unmutilated Tuna -- The Hemingway-Lerner Friendship Begins -- The Lerner Marine Laboratory -- The "Big Fat Slob" of Bimini -- Bimini Boxing -- The Sharks and the Tommy Gun -- The Bimini Chronology -- IV. The Early Fishing Clubs and the Emergence of the IGFA -- The Salt Water Anglers of America -- The Bahamas Marlin and Tuna Club -- The IGFA Is Born -- The Question of Hemingway's Contribution -- Hemingway as Conservationist -- Women as Equal Competitors -- Rules and Equity -- Hemingway's IGFA Hall of Fame Induction -- Big Changes for the IGFA -- V. The Great Bimini Mystery: Did Hemingway Return? -- The Critical Consensus -- The Bahamas Trip: June 1949 -- The Spanish Civil War -- Marital Angst, a New Wife, and an International Move -- Career Intervention -- The Big Fish Have Gone? -- A Conquered Fishing Ground? -- Hemingway's Obsession Cools? -- Questioning Loyalties -- Bimini Was Still Calling -- Lerner Hospitality -- So, Did Hemingway Come Back? -- VI: The King's Highway Property Question Unraveled -- The Heilner-Lerner Argument -- The IGFA Vice Presidential Snafu -- VII. The Hemingway Legacy in Bimini.

Important Historical Sites -- Bimini Shark Lab -- Famous Faces -- The Big-Game Fishing Economy -- Afterword -- A Chronology: Important Dates and Events -- Acknowledgments -- Works Cited -- Letters Cited -- About the Author -- Index.

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