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Death a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents
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Death a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents
Current price: $36.99
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Death a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents
Current price: $36.99
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From the author of
Last Horizons
, Peter Hathaway Capstick now presents
Death in a Lonely Land
, a second volume of his hunting, fishing, and shooting adventures on five continents—stories collected from such magazines as
Outdoor Life
, NRA’s
American Hunter
,
Guns & Ammo
, and
Petersen’s Hunting
.
The stockbroker-turned-outdoorsman recalls his days as an African pro hunter in “The Killer Baboons of Vlackfontein.” “Four Fangs in a Treetop” records a foray into British Honduras for the jaguar, “a gold-dappled teardrop of motion.” Capstick narrowly escapes the Yellow Beard, Central America’s deadly tree-climbing snake, and cows “The Black Death” (Cape buffalo) in the kind of article that makes this author “the guru of American hunting fans” (
New York Newsday
). On Brazil’s forsaken Marajo Island, he bags the pugnacious red buffalo, which has the “temperament of a constipated Sumo wrestler and the tenacity of an IRS man.”
The author discusses 12- and 20-gauge shotgun loads; recalls the pleasures of “biltong” (African beef jerky); describes the irresistible homemade lures of snook fishing expert John Gorbatch; and kills a genteel take of Atlantic salmon with the brilliantly simple tube fly.
Featuring more than thirty gorgeous drawings by famous wildlife artist Dino Paravano,
is another collector’s item by a writer who “keeps the tradition of great safari adventure alive in each of his books” (
African Expedition Gazette
).