Death In The Long Grass

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Summary: Don't read these before bedtime.
Review: Capstick's "Death..." series of books are truly frightening.Stephen King might be paid by the word, but Capstick's words are written in blood, and often it is his own. Capstick wrote that true hunting meant that the hunted had at least as good a chance as the hunter. Unfortunately, in America nowadays, we have bear baiting (a pile of garbage and a "hunter" in a tree), and camouflaged wankers on 4-wheelers with turkey whistles and dogs. It makes you wish Charlton Heston was on the receiving end of "The Most Dangerous Game". Anyway, Peter Capstick is an incredible storyteller, mainly because he lived so many of the stories he tells. Even if you are not as rabidly (ha!) anti-hunting as I am, you can appreciate that we are at the top of the food chain, but not by much.

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Summary: Enjoyable Adventure
Review: Peter was an entertaining fellow. I have found most of his books that I've read rather riveting. You would have thought him to be an englisher rather than a former new york stock broker.

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Summary: loved it!!
Review: this book was great! a real page tunner, i couldn't put it down! I loved all the detail, it made you feel as if you were right there with him!

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Summary: The best contemporary writer of African hunting.
Review: This book has got it all. Capstick has an uncanny way of putting you in the action.

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Summary: His first and, perhaps, his best book.
Review: After many years on the African trail, Capstick takes the reader "up close and personal" with Africa's Big Five in the first of his numerous books on the subject. He is a first-rate story teller, as we see from his gripping renditions of the tales told to him of the Great White Hunters from Africa's not-to-distant past. He also throws in a few harrowing tales of his own, just for good measure, throughout. The breadth and scope of his entire volume of work certainly makes him chief "Bwana" of all writers who have broached the topic of African big game hunting. You may also want to check out some other titles in the "Death" series, such as his first compilation of magazine articles, "Death in a Lonely Land". I promise, if you like hunting (or just like reading about it), you'll be glad that you did.

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Summary: I found "DEATH..." to be one of the best I have ever read.
Review: Hathaway's writing puts the reader in the middle of the action. I could hear the flies buzzing, feel the stifling heat and the gut wrenching tension . I seemed to be up close and personal with animals I had only seen in a zoo.

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Summary: A "must read" for the outdoorsman.
Review: Peter Hathaway Capstick ranks among the finest story tellers in the world today. His tales of hunting dangerous African game in "Death in the Long Grass" is riveting. His anecdotes portray in vivid detail the danger, fear, and humor in hunting big game in the African bush. Read this book and you will never look at a leopard the same again, or any other big game species in Africa for that matter. Capstick's respect for the animals he hunted and for the African people is quite apparent. "Bravo old boy!"

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Summary: The very best of his books!
Review: I found this book to be most informitve and entertaning! A great read, a perfect 10 easily.
If you like to read about african big game hunting then this is your book.

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Summary: death in the long grass
Review: Having read all of capstick's writing's and having given some as gifts to friends who are also hunting partners all I can say is you ca't put his stuff down. His method of story telling will either make you sweat with apprehension or rolll with laughter even at some of the macabre things written. Even if you never plan on going to africa it is requirred reading ..Plus it's all true !!!!

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Summary: As Good As it Gets
Review: Capstick captures the other side of civilized man, the hunter. He writes of things suppressed by artificial people, with artificial wants, and artificial needs - in other words the detatched from nature urbanite who has absolutely no clue as to the duality of nature. A duality which includes both beauty and death. The hunter understands this. Capstick, with wry wit and humor brings us into the world of the hunter. This is not a book for people with a naive, Disneyesque view of nature, but rather for the bold who understands the true relationship between man, nature, and the beasts of the field and forest. Must reading for all true sportsman.