In August 1922, the then 23-year-old Ernest Hemingway, who had been working as a European correspondent for the Toronto Star in Paris for a year, traveled with his wife Hadley to the Black Forest for three weeks. During a time of hyperinflation and shortly after the lost First World War, he encountered poverty, xenophobia, but also lonely valleys and the longed-for fishing waters. His journey took him from Strasbourg to Freiburg, then to Triberg and into the Elztal. Exactly 100 years later, Thomas Fuchs follows Hemingway's trip and makes it tangible for readers. "Hemingway was now among the intellectuals of modernity. He boasted about his experiences in nature, and in case anyone doubted his fighting spirit, he always had boxing gloves with him.".