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The African adventurers : a return to the silent places / Peter Hathaway Capstick.

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  • ISBN: 0312076223 :
  • ISBN: 9780312076221
  • Physical Description: 244 pages; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1992.

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Includes index.
Subject: Big game hunting > Africa.
Hunters > Africa > Biography.
Adventure and adventurers > Africa.

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  • 3 of 4 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 0 of 1 copy available at Camden County Library.

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The African Adventurers : A Return to the Silent Places
The African Adventurers : A Return to the Silent Places
by Capstick, Peter Hathaway
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The African Adventurers : A Return to the Silent Places


Hailed as the adventure-writing successor to Hemingway and Ruark, only Peter Hathaway Capstick "can write action as cleanly and suspensefully as the best of his predecessors' ( Sports Illustrated ). This long-awaited sequel to Death in the Silent Places brings to life four turn-of-the-century adventurers and the savage frontiers they braved. * Frederick Selous, a British hunter, naturalist, and soldier, rewrote the history books with his fearless treks deep into Africa. * English game ranger Constantine "Iodine" Ionides saved Tanganyikan villages from man-eating lions and leopards. He also gained lasting fame for his uncanny ability to capture black mambas, cobras, Gaboon vipers, and other deadly snakes. * The dashing Brit Johnny Boyes who gained the chieftainship of the Kikuyu tribe with sheer bravado and survived the ferocious battles and ambushes of intertribal warfare. * And Scottish ex-boxer, Jim Sutherland, one of the best ivory hunters who ever lived. His tracking skills and stamina afoot became the stuff of African hunting legend. In The African Adventurers: A Return to the Silent Places , Capstick delivers "the kind of chilling stories that Hemingway only heard second-hand...with a flair and style that Papa himself would admire" ( Guns and Ammo ). The author's pungent wit and his authenticity gained from years in the bush make this quartet of vintage heroics an unforgettable return to the silent places.

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