"The essays in this volume are the product of The Seventh International Hemingway Conference, held in Sun Valley, Idaho in 1996 and cited as trend-setting by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Well-known and highly experienced scholars join with new or seldom-heard voices in Hemingway studies to reconsider his literary relationship to the natural world." "Their critical terrain includes Hemingway's upbringing in the tradition of hunter-naturalist Theodore Roosevelt; the relationship of hunting, fishing, and sporting literature to his work; his engendering of the land and his naturing of women; his indebtedness to Ojibway Indian culture; and the first study of his 1950s African "journal." Along the way, these essays explore the trout streams of northern Michigan, the Guadarrama mountains of Spain, the savannahs of East Africa, the Gulf Stream waters of Key West and Cuba, and the American West of Idaho."--Jacket.