Death in a Lonely Land: More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents
<p><b>From the author of <i>Last Horizons</i>, Peter Hathaway Capstick now presents <i>Death in a Lonely Land</i>, a second volume of his hunting, fishing, and shooting adventures on five continents—stories collected from such magazines as <i>Outdoor Life</i>, NRA’s <i>American Hunter</i>, <i>Guns & Ammo</i>, and <i>Petersen’s Hunting</i>. </b><br /><br />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” (<i>New York Newsday</i>). 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.”<br /><br />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.<br /><br />Featuring more than thirty gorgeous drawings by famous wildlife artist Dino Paravano, <i>Death in a Lonely Land</i>is another collector’s item by a writer who “keeps the tradition of great safari adventure alive in each of his books” (<i>African Expedition Gazette</i>).</p>