Follow Ernest Hemingways exploits on the Bahamian island of Bimini from 1935 to 1937 the very moment in time when the International Game Fish Association under the authors coleadership was emerging. Covers Hemingways role in the formation of the IGFA his underappreciated seminal writing about competitive saltwater angling when the sport was still in its infancy the amazing fishing he enjoyed on the island and the way all of these experiences translated into the composition of his posthumous novel Islands in the Stream. This is the only book on this period in Hemingways life and reveals unexpected dimensions to the Hemingway portrait that deserve attention including his surprising humor his advanced conservationist views several decades before the environmental movement even began and his egalitarian ideas about his contemporary female counterparts in the biggame fishing world challenging the usual portrait of Hemingway as a chauvinist with no personal rules boundaries or conscience.