The African Adventurers: A Return to the Silent Places
In addition to producing videos on African hunting, writing books about African hunting and hunters (most recently his Sand of Silence: On Safari in Namibia, LJ 9/15/91), and editing reprints of classic African accounts of hunters and explorers, Capstick himself is an experienced hunter and student of African history and lore. All of these talents come to bear in these biographies of four white hunters famous for their exploits in the African interior early this century: Frederick Selous, naturalist, soldier, and elephant hunter; C.J.P. Ionides, game ranger and hunter of man-eating lions and deadly snakes; John Boyes, who became a "King" of the Kikuyus; and James Sutherland, skilled tracker and ivory hunter. Capstick uses the hunters' own writings while adding his color, commentary, and humor plus filling in details from other sources, vividly bringing to life an era and characters unlikely to return. For YA and adult collections at public libraries.-Roland Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., CarbondaleCopyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.