Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter’s Adventures in the African Bush

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As exciting as any novel, as taut and fun as any journey tale, Peter Hathaway Capstick’s Death within the Lengthy Grass takes us deep into the center of darkness to view Africa throughout the eyes of one of the well known skilled hunters.

Few males can say they’ve identified Africa as Capstick has identified it―top safaris via lion u . s .; monitoring guy-consuming leopards alongside tangled jungle paths; working for protection as concern-maddened elephants stampede in all instructions. And of the few who’ve identified this unhealthy way of living, fewer nonetheless can recount their adventures with the aptitude of this former skilled hunter-grew to become-author.

Based on Capstick’s personal reviews and the non-public bills of his colleagues, Death within the Lengthy Grass portrays the good killers of the African bush―now not handiest the lion, leopard, and elephant, however the primitive rhino and the crocodile looking ahead to its unsuspecting prey, the massive hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an specific educate out of regulate. Capstick was once a born raconteur whose colourful descriptions and eye for stimulating, unique element deliver us head to head with one of the crucial such a lot ferocious killers on the earth―underrated killers just like the unusually courageous and crafty hyena, silent killers such because the lightning-speedy black mamba snake, collective killers just like the wild canine.

Readers can lean again in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel within the varieties of looking tales Hemingway and Ruark used to listen to in resort bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters may inform of what they heard past the campfire and noticed throughout the points of interest of an specific rifle.

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