Death in the Long Grass Peter Hathaway Capstick Published by St. Martins, 1977 Seller: Green River Books, Gainesville, U.S.A. However, if you spend the best part of eleven years, as I did, living with big, live, genuine lions all around, you might discover that your balding head never hits your pillow without that little niggling of doubt. He bravely held his ground and made the shot nicely, only the bullet broke up in the massive chest muscles of the lion, who proceeded to chew Sir George into small, easily digested chunks before anybody could come to his aid. Her beauty, h." In a blink it was gone into the high grass, but not before I was able to stick a .375 into it with undetermined effect. In a reflex motion, I spun around and slammed the sides of the barrels against the flank of the lion, who was in midair, close enough to shake hands with. Operating in a photographic safari area, professional hunter Peter Hankin has had to leave it at his hunting camp, Chitangulu, forty miles downstream. The first time a lion returns to a human kill to finish his meal and receives a whiplash of bullet from a bad shot, you can bet the beer money he won't make the same mistake twice. A very attention-getting grunt sounded from the grass about twenty feet away, and a most determined-looking lioness stepped onto the path and flattened herself. Please try again. Beautiful stories and vivid descriptions. Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush Hardcover - Illustrated, 15 Jan. 1978 by Peter Hathaway Capstick (Author) 992 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle Edition 10.44 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 21.11 5 Used from 17.00 6 New from 20.92 Mass Market Paperback 20.00 3 Used from 20.00 A very good read. Reaching their campsite, Cornonhad some mechanical difficulty with the truck that hauled provisions, tentage, and such. If you're remotely interested in wildlife, Africa or adventure, you simply MUST read this book. Bending down, I defined the clear pugmark of a big, male lion. I tried to yell to him but the words wouldn't come.In a single bound, the great cat cuffed the spear aside and smashed the Awiza to the ground, pinning him with the weight of his 450-pound, steel sinewed body the way a dog holds a juicy bone. (ABC Radio Darwin: Jesse Thompson) In September, an Indigenous man in Darwin was handed a fine for . with a taste for white meat? Watching the sun sink and waiting for time to pass, We prepare for darkness and possible death in the long grass; Moving slowly, one step and then two, we lay in position waiting for what to do . There was nothing between me and that lion but a fairly fragile mosquito net, so I felt it incumbent on me to take a dive out the opposite side of the cot. It grunted at the blows and pulled its head back partially, then with a furious roar stuck it back into the hut. Inside the travel-dented locker lie three flat five-packs of Kynoch 300-grain soft-point cartridges for the battered, silver-worn, old rifle, a Cogswell and Harrison, .375 Holland and Holland Magnum in caliber. A classic example took place at the close of the last century when no less a power than the empire of Queen Victoria was thwarted in its imperial designs by eight man-eaters who halted construction of the so called Lunatic Express, the Uganda Railroad, as it passed through south-east Kenya. One day, with a client from Philadelphia, we shot a very fine male lion at about ten yards after tracking him off the carcass of a wildebeest for three hours. There have been literally hundreds of man-eaters reported in the area since 1900 and, as the case of Peter Hankin so horribly demonstrates, there is still not much of a shortage.One pride, for example, the Ubena man-eaters, had been in operation for a full ten years before George Rushby, a game officer of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and one of the greatest man-eating lion hunters of all time, began to put the screws on them in their thirty by fifty mile range in 1942. He comes across as a rather bad boy of the English gentry. He must have already cleared it through my company or he wouldn't have known I was free. Finished, they backed away to the truck and got out of there.Lions do very odd things to otherwise stable, soberpeople. May be missing dust jacket. He treated all within earshot to a tirade on the lack of government protection from the horrors of the bush. With all his strength he belted the lion across the muzzle with it, then again. Covered with gore from her wounds, she fled the black hut but, halfway to the De Beer house, she stopped, giving a desperate thought to helping her husband. As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capsticks. Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2023. Death in the Long Grass - , Peter Hathaway Capstick, 9781466803923 At the time I was given this report by the father, who stayed several days with us in Rhodesia this past season, the complete extent of the boy's injuries was yet unknown, although some brain damage was suspected. The lioness' breath gagged him as she tried to get his face into her mouth, but, because the paw she was holding him with was in the way, she failed. In 1969 on the Luangwa I was sharing a hut with Brian Smith, a young professional hunter, in Mwangwalala camp, which was located about 150 yards from the main camp used by the clients. As lions go, he was a real beaut, well over nine feet and with an anthracite neckpiece that grew down to his cuticles. ${cardName} not available for the seller you chose. I asked him what was up. Finally, we stopped and, checking the wind, swung in a wide arc to bring us as close as possible to the shrub yet offer us maximum visibility under the difficult circumstances.Finally, we came up to the thorn bush and, the three armed men leading the trackers and gunbearers, sneaked up on it. Death in the long grass: Myanmar's snake bite menace Snake charmer Sein Tin cannot remember how many times he's been bitten by snakes, but he believes the writhing tattoos that coil around his arms and body, several depicting Myanmar's mythical "naga" sea serpent, have saved him from mortal wounds. We got within what seemed like inches of that lion, when he let out a fine roar, almost as if he didn't like us there. I bought Capstick's "Death in the Long Grass." My first Africa Safari-type book. After all, fried chicken anyone? It dawned on him that the lioness must be standing on the stock. This study guide consists of approx. After giving up his career, the New Jersey native hunted in Central and South America before going to Africa in 1968, where he held professional hunting licenses in Ethiopia, Zambia, Botswana, and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He shrugged with typical African fatalism. What if Len wasn't dead but only unconscious? Directing Colin Matthews to rip his T-shirt into strips, he had the young man bind the wound to keep the blood out ofhis eyes. I beckoned to the remaining grounded tracker to go with me out into that black, high grass where all those lions were loitering. At my client's shot, six other lions appeared, none showing any particular inclination to move off. The movie "Ghost and the Darkness" is one of my very favorite of all. It was so dark that he could hardly see, but he heard the short Chuff! The man-thing is still asleep, unaware of crouching death so near, his breathing deep and regular in the cat's lain-back ears. An inch or so higher or lower would have broken either her upper or lower jaw and prevented her from snapping off Colin's kneecap a few seconds later. Jaguar, yes. A post-mortem on thebody of Peter Hankin determines that, mercifully, he died instantly of a broken neck from the lioness' first bite. If I had to pick a common trait of all dangerous game, besides the fact that they can kill you, it would have to be that they are all so unbelievably fast. Half the time was spent on hands and knees peering under the dense growth for a patch of tawny hide, hoping, when you saw it that it wasn't attached to a growing halo of teeth hurtling at you in a close-quarter charge. I took away one lesson for sure: the next time a district commissioner asks me for a favor, I'm going to have a severe attack of radio trouble. My client was doing everything right except for one minor item: he had forgotten to pull the trigger. The hackles were crawling around on my neck like a nest of maggots, and my palms were slippery cold on the Circassian walnut stock of the rifle. It was hard, dangerous hunting that I had quit rather than risk a client's being chewed up. The man-eater gave a terrific tug and the claws ripped forward, tearing De Beer's scalp loose from his skull until it hung over his face like a dripping, hairy, red beret. Capstick has also served in that most perilous of trades-- Elephant and Buffalo Cropping Officer.Peter Capstick has long made his home in Africa, the source of his inspiration. Well written true stories about big game hunting in Africa. That bloody Chabunkwa lion chopped another Senga last night. In the dawn light, that tree proved to be the residence of all the nomads as well as most of our crew. That said, you do not need to be a hunter to appreciate this book. In the impossibly heavy grass, the visibility could not have been over ten feet, and I wanted to give it every conceivable opportunity to expire before I went in. One big slug had taken him from below at a slight angle, punching a cantaloupe-sized hole through his chest that broke his off-shoulder into atoms, the other just creasing his side in a long, red welt that cut the short hair of his flank like a barber's razor. Capstick. There is no form of lion hunting that is not exciting, but this is one of the methods most likely to continue fluttering your stomach twenty years after you first tried it. Fumbling, he loaded them both, jacking a round into each chamber. After enough experience, you find your brain never goes completely to sleep, but, like an army posting sentries, keeps partially awake while the main body sleeps. He would have to be able to see the lioness to risk a safe shot. A Spanish client, Armando Bassi of Barcelona, a fine hunter, had wounded a good-maned lion, but it had escapedinto the thick, before Paul could get in a finishing shot. for catching humans. For some reason the lion then turned on Paul's legs and began chewing, as I recall, on his left thigh. Smells like that same chap who ate the other bunch over at Chabunkwa, about five miles from this village. If most of the emerging, game-rich countries ever published figures on how many people are killed and eaten by a variety of carnivores within their borders, there would be a tourist recession that would make Black Tuesday look like St. Swithin's Eve.Of course, nobody knows for certain exactly how many people are eaten, the very nature of man-eating having a decided tendency to make evidence somewhat scarce. One doesn't tend to pack the tourists in when word gets around that there is an outside chance of seeing the inside of a lion on a trip through the Tsavo National Park. Good author, well written, good accounts, shows reality of wild animals. He wing-shot it, though a bit far back, and it rose into the air with a terrible roar, rearing like a hooked tarpon. I was also given an unconfirmed report during this same conversation that one of George Adamson's lions killed and ate one of his African domestics, a cook as the tale goes. Still inside. ""As I could see lions within what looked like biting distance, I started blasting away with the .308. Definitions by the largest Idiom Dictionary. David Livingstone was severely mauled in his early days by a lion he had wounded in Bechuanaland, the cat grabbing him by the shoulder and shaking him until he felt no pain at all. Excerpt. Human nature being what it is, Homo sapiens are somehow loathe to entertain the thought that any mere animal would possibly want to eat them for food. Death in the Long Grass 1LionIt is nearly three o'clock in the sweltering morning of September 2, 1974.In four hot, still hours dawn will hemorrhage like a fresh wound in the sky over the eastern Muchingas, the great, towering walls that confine the upper reaches of the Luangwa River in Zambia's Eastern Province. If you're watering multiple times a day in mid-temperature weather, you're giving it too much. Grass needs between 1 and 1.5 inches of water per week to keep it fresh and green. Are you all right? To see our price, add these items to your cart. Even though most African lions are afraid of man on general principles, Africa is a mind-bogglingly big place, and it's going to be some time before you can bet the beer money that the next lion you bump into won't be the wrong one.Copyright 1977 by Peter Hathaway Capstick. The cat, standing over me, growling horribly, seemed confused, then bounded back to attack Silent. At twenty yards there was the familiar Whuff! Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the worldunderrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. After giving up his career, the New Jersey native hunted in Central and South America before going to Africa in 1968, where he held professional hunting licenses in Ethiopia, Zambia, Botswana, and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Capstick writes with absolute authority on an Africa which is rapidly receding into the past. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Reprinted by permission. Seeing and hearing nothing, he called Harvey's name softly. Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it--leading safaris through lion country . Highly recced! What the hell was Silent looking at, anyway?Moving a quarter of an inch at a time, he began to back away from the bush toward me. Self publishing . To add insult, he then had walked smack between our beds and out the other side of the tent.Lions in camp are a fairly normal state of affairs in Africa today. As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capsticks Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters.Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known itleading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. "The fact that those lions were not driven off or particularly intimated by repeated rifle fire is fair evidence, Ibelieve, that they were reasonably desperate. Still, I knew that there had been cases of lions killing as frequently as twice the same night and that, anyway, man-eaters have an uncanny way of showing up where least expected. Lions are not at all above scavenging and take to moderately decomposed carrion quite nicely, thanks very much. I fished out my flask of Scotch and poured a hair-raising shot into the little, scratched plastic cup while Silent recruited men to cut thorn for a, , a spiky barrier or fence to keep out nocturnal unpleasantries. Today (April 17) coincides with Lexin. A book I have read and re-read, Capstick being a master story-teller whether recounting personal incidents, or simply relaying some of the tales that abound of hunting dangerous game in Central Africa. It's been written by someone who knows more than most about the subject having spent decades there. No lions. Few of us can now have the privilege of hunting wild elephants or buffalo but we can at least re-live the hunts of the past through Capstick's work. The death of Peter Hankin in the Luangwa Valley came to me as more than a news item; I had worked for him as a professional hunter in the area quite near where he was killed. Peter Hathaway Capstick's 'Death in the Long Grass' continues to be one of the true classics of written hunting tales. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 9, 2014. The banks of the river in this area are perhaps forty to fifty feet high, and below them is one of the niftiest collections of large crocodiles and hippos you would ever want to see. As he smashed into me, seemingly in slow motion, the right barrel fired, perhaps from a conscious trigger pull, perhaps from impact, I'll never know. Charging lions have been known to cover a hundred yards in just over three seconds. With my heightened senses, I could now hear the animal padding through the soft dirt outside the hut, looking for a weak point. Even if fiction is worth a read. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2011-08-30 17:14:45 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA142818 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donor allen_countydonation There was no way I could possibly make it the seventy-five yards back to the rifle. It was still breathing. Finally an idea formed that would give me an edge. My mind raced like a flywheel: What'll it be, boy, lion or crocs? Crawling into the nightmare tangles of thorn on your hands and knees after a big male lion may have very different consequences from kicking a cottontail rabbit out of a Connecticut brush pile, although in each case the sport is called hunting.But for his skin as a personal trophy, the lion is hunted entirely as a personal challenge. Snatching up a new flaming brand, she opened the door and ran for the village, right past the lion, who let her go. Sometime before dawn, the lion sounds stopped. There was no proof, but circumstantial evidence pointed to the fact that the big, healthy, glossy-coated cat (who is now a full-mount in Milano) had decided that things were getting a bit hot where he was operating and moved south, just happening to pick the wrong hut for his first foray in a new zone. However, since they had attacked no one and were within the borders of the national park, nothing could be done despite their threatening behavior.The second night, firearms locked away in accordance with regulations designed to prevent their theft for guerrilla purposes, Len and Jean were asleep in a pole-and-dagga (mud) hut. I had tried hunting lion in this cover before, harrying them through the jungles of waxy, green, , a dense, house-high shrub that grows like a beach umbrella with the handle cut off, in hope of getting my clients a quick shot as the cats crossed the open channels between the heavier clumps. Actually, before Cornon left, a group of nomads came to camp adjacent to us, so we had quite a gathering. Before he is even awake, there is the soggy snap of crushing vertiebrae, then silence. I'll leave in an hour. I finally decided, after locking eyes with her for at least six months, that I would prefer the devil I didn't know to the one lying there watching me like a butcher reading a cuts chart. Quivering with adrenalin we listened to it growling ferociously thirty yards in the cover.I led the men back a few yards to have a cigarette and hoped the bloody thing would die before I had to go in and drag it out. Whichever, it probably saved his life. My back flat to the wall, I swung the torch in a slow, wide arc, the dark, grape-jelly gleam of blood spoor reflecting in the lightbeam. I think, considering the number of lions killed, that the pharaohs' personal bodyguards must have formed quite a rank, or surely, inevitably, a wounded lion would have caught up with somebody's royal hindside.Tiglathpileser I, a Middle Eastern monarch in a later time slot, is recorded to have made Amenhotep III look like a beginner by smiting "120 brave-hearted lions in heroic battles on foot [I'll bet!] Even as I pick up my copy I can feel my heart start to pound, feel the dust of Africa under my feet, smell the whiff of cordite and hot metal, taste the tang of blood. Well, I reckoned, double or nothing. The scissor-shaped incisors sheared away huge chunks of meat from buttocks and thighs, the lion chewing with the side of his muzzle until his face and chest were covered with dark gore. Excellent from start to finish. , as natural ponds and flowages are called. Read more. No spoor, no roaring, no kills. Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club thats right for you for free. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can . It did. It's impossible to hunt and track at the same time. It was an interesting few minutes. Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush is written by Peter Hathaway Capstick and published by St. Martin's Press (Macmillan US Trade). Five times he worked the bolt of his .338 custom Mauser, but the lion did not fall. Silent, my gunbearer, heard my call and stepped out of the hut with his brother, Invisible. . She rolled under the bed and, hysterical with agony and fear, emerged fromthe far side of the hut near the door. Help others learn more about this product by uploading a video! He told her not to go outside, but she insisted. He seemed to hang in the air while my numbed brain screeched SHOOT! At the same time, a book which is 5 years old, and still in the top 50k most of the time - that's a book doing really well. Less than an hour later we were boiling through the growing heat and billowing dust to the village of Kampisi.Kampisi looked like most in Zambia's Eastern Province--shabbyand dusty with a ragtag collection of snarling curs and tired-looking people, hordes of spindle-legged children who would not reach puberty. I had bearded that lion in deep grass at night with an empty gun! ""What to do now? She came forward one. She lashed out of the blackness and caught De Beer behind the head at the base of the skull, the two-inch talons driving to bone and holding him like great fishhooks. As most men who have written about the hunting of man-eaters have confirmed, the majority of really high-scoring lions have been hunted badly by an amateur or clumsy professional before. Except for muscular ripples up and down his flanks, he never moved again. Those lions can't do that for pleasure, because it has to scare them, too. He seems to love big, powerful guns/rifles/shotguns, but a close second favorite of his is a round (or three) of "sundowners", hefty glasses of scotch/whiskey/good, really good wine. Used; Good. You will likely recall the sensation from your first childhood camping trip. Without releasing his grip, the lion tugged, gently pulling the body from between the hut and the sleepers a few inches away. If he wasn't a man-eater, what do you suppose he had in mind trying to get into Silent's house and then returning to give me a try? "Le Xin Watan Memorial Park" located on Roman Highway, Fuxing District, Taoyuan City, was built in 2017. I sent Amos back for the Rover and my driver, Elias, who pulled up on the road shortly.Although this particular car was open, a raised plank on a pipe framework over the pickup bed had been built for photography and better visibility in heavy cover. I wonder how many more there were who were simply reported as "missing" or, considering the primitive conditions of the more remote tribes, never reported at all.Certainly, there are any number of cases of men being killed but not eaten by lions. They are hunted for the oldest of motives: the challenge of man against a fast, deadly animal on the animal's terms. In a two-day period, three lions had become increasingly bold, even to the point of entering the camp and eating chickens belonging to the native staff. Perhaps he just wanted to borrow a cup of zebra. After fifteen minutes of tossing, I took another bite at the flask and dozed off shortly after.You don't have to live in the African bush surrounded by dangerous or potentially dangerous game very long before you develop a sixth sense that may mean the difference between life and the alternative. As he fought with the little Parker-Hale to make it fire, the incredible, unbelievable,unthinkable happened: Colin Matthews put his foot into a galvanized bucket hidden in the shadows, lost his balance, and fell, dropping the precious rifle.The lioness looked up, her bloody mouth twisted into a snarl. He never made a sound as I tended him, nor did I speak. ofcentral Africa, where eyebell-to-eyeball confrontations are as common as not. Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2022. As the title says, this book is all about dying and in particular, how Africa tries to do that to you. It had to be the only recorded instance of a man driving off a marauding lion with a Coke bottle!Not much fancying the probable results of following a hungry man-eater into the dark, I gave Silent my Beretta over/under 12-bore shotgun and a handful of buckshot shells, sending him and Invisible over to the large hut where the rest of my staff slept. No blood. Because of the great personal danger inherent in sport hunting for lions under modern conditions, it might be said that hunting lion on foot in the thick covers of central Africa is the purest expression of the honest sport of hunting. I didn't miss the second time as he dragged himself toward me with his front paws.Lion charges are usually, but not always, preceded by a short grunt, which is a great aid in locating the cat. And not all the tales had happy endings in an often kill or be killed A book I have read and re-read, Capstick being a master story-teller whether recounting personal incidents, or simply relaying some of the tales that abound of hunting dangerous game in Central Africa. Add to this the blood-curdling vocal display that accompanies the rush, and you will see why there have been many men who never even got a shot off, let alone a winner. As the thousand grains of lead tore through the roof (happily without setting fire to it withmuzzle blast), there was a tremendous roar that blended with the twin crash of the shots. The client fired, but because he was so blown and shaking from lack of breath after the long run, he just creased the forepaw. Nobody had any interest whatever in coming down until we found out what 'gave' with those lions. Peter Hathaway Capstick (1940-1996), a former Wall Street stockbroker turned professional adventurer, was critically acclaimed as the successor to Hemingway and Ruark in African hunting literature. But if you blow it, it may cost many dozens of lives before you have another chance.Just as he does when hunting zebra or wildebeest, a lion, having chosen a victim, will usually stick with his choice, no matter how many other animals pass within easier reach. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. View flipping ebook version of (PDF BOOK) Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush full published by chanler.romar on 2021-06-11. Dilated wide to gather the pale light, two hard, amber eyes flicker across the broken ground and lock on the indistinct form of the man sleeping behind the netting. In this novel, Alex's uncle dies in what he is told is a car accident. St. Martin's Press, 1978-01-15. Curiously, there have been many cases of lions actually stepping over one man to pick another, like a bored matron at the canape platter of a cocktail party. I thought you might be able to help me out. Maneating lions, if undisturbed, commonly eat almost every vestige of their victims, even the blood-soaked clothes and shoes as well as the bones. I grabbed it and ran over to the lion from behind, the cat still chewing thoughtfully on Silent's arm. His writing style remains undated, as readable as a tabloid newspaper and as exciting as any Forsyth thriller. I loaded my .470 Evans double-express rifle with soft-points and stuck another clump of the big cartridges into various pockets of my bush clothes where they wouldn't rattle against each other. Peter Hathaway. We found two dead lions, which were triumphantly dragged back to camp by the now-intrepid occupants of the tree. Over the years, my clients have probably killed 25 percent of their lions off dead elephant carcasses or nearby, where the lion has gone to sleep off his meal.Although many harassed lions will charge unwounded, the vast majority of human maulings and deaths under hunting circumstances are, logically, from wounded lions. ${cardName} unavailable for quantities greater than ${maxQuantity}. During the course of a safari, one or more lion kills of natural game are usually discovered. Silent entered with my flask, and we were able to get a gagging shot down his throat. 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