Both men, still in their underwear, ran for the Harvey hut. The plot concerns a virus that kills off grass species, including rice and wheat. "Also," he said, shuffling the dirt with a big toe, "they were a little bit drunk." ${cardName} not available for the seller you chose. The millet and sorghum beer the tribes brew and drink keeps fermenting in their stomachs until the celebrants pass into a comatose sleep wherever they happen to lie down. Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon, St. Read less. Perhaps he just wanted to borrow a cup of zebra. Suddenly, the upper hinge had broken, and the woman lost her hold. I'd suggest your read his other books too. I was wishing I had listened to mother and become an accountant or a haberdasher as I slipped into a duck-walk and inched ahead. Installing the two clients atop this with me, I had Elias carefully drive toward the continuing growls, the bumper of the car's front flattening the grass ahead of us.As we came closer, perhaps seven or eight yards, we saw some movement at the place from which the growling was coming and instantly fired. Except for books, Amazon will display a List Price if the product was purchased by customers on Amazon or offered by other retailers at or above the List Price in at least the past 90 days. Book Description As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick's 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 . I grabbedthe rifle and electric torch, pulled the thorn fence away, and dashed barefoot toward the screams. I had a client in Zambia once, who shall go unnamed, who had a great chance at a lion that was very well known in the area, a tremendous black-maned monster called the Mwangwalala lion. Also, I knew there was more than one wounded lion in there, not forgetting the companion who had notreappeared nor shown himself after disappearing into the hardwoods that ringed the. I just read it again, and loved it just as much as when it was first published As I left in the hunting car to take Silent to the small dispensary some seventy-five miles away, I warned the headman that if anyone so much as disturbed a whisker of the lion for. Hans Besser, a German hunter early in this century, told of a missionary of the White Fathers in Tanganyika being carried off and taking fifteen minutes to die while the lion ate him. Highly recced! ""In the security of camp fires and lanterns which had been lit, I just happened to check the shotgun in case those lions did return. Discretion being the better part of lion hunting, it was we who cleared off, returning a few hours later for the old boy's skin. Please use a different way to share. Aware, from related incidents, of the Zambian Game Department's policy on the killing of unlicensed game, I knew that the department would conclude that since the lion had not actually eaten me, there was no proof that it was a man-eater, and I was therefore guilty of lion poaching. Willy awoke his son-in-law and sent him to start the small Honda generator while he went to the storeroom for the guns. Everything was in the lion's favor in this growth, and I hadn't kidded myself that the man-eater had left it. Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2016. Four years later, in the Njombe District of Tanganyika's Southern Province, Rushby was again enlisted to hunt the Njombe man-eaters, a collectivity of feline mayhem that, between the fifteen members of the grisly pride racked up a confirmed score of over 1,500 natives and colonists. In this case the price of the binge wasn't a headache, but death.The headman pointed to the north when I asked him in Fanagalo where the lion had carried his kill. Capstick writes with absolute authority on an Africa which is rapidly receding into the past. It's impossible to hunt and track at the same time. The client fired, but because he was so blown and shaking from lack of breath after the long run, he just creased the forepaw. 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. I am, however, a believer in the sooner-or-later theory, sort of an offshoot of Murphy's Law, which, paraphrased, states that if you stick your neck out with the stuff that bites back enough times, you're going to get it sooner or later. His book on the episode is a classic of hunting literature and, due to its immense popularity, is still often available in used bookstores. The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. Silent entered with my flask, and we were able to get a gagging shot down his throat. I put a shot into the ground right between his legs and he did a back flip and disappeared, finally showing himself again as he cleared the grass 200 yards away. I aimed carefully and paid the insurance on the first one.Although nothing to write home about in the mane department, these two were extremely large and heavy lions, probably about 500 pounds, and in their prime. 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. **Simply Brit** Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. It is chancy hunting, since the lion is on the move at this time of day, and, in thick bush, you are unlikely to see him until he is quite close.Another extremely interesting form of lion hunting is practiced mostly in arid countries such as the. Laws that deny Indigenous custom. Since the previous year had been a record one for heavy rainfall, much of the grass was twelve to fourteen feet tall and offered the visibility of minestrone soup. 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. Her stomach contained a small snake, a wad of chicken feathers, and most of Len Harvey's face. We are after them. The man gave a single, convulsive tremor and lay still. After all, he had already proven ten times that he had no natural fear of man--the fear that can give the hunter an edge.I thought about Paul Nielssen's mauling in the past year within this same strip of bush, about five miles upriver. I don't really remember when I began being interested in big game hunters and the "big five". "It is good. Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it--leading safaris through lion country . Shipping cost, delivery date, and order total (including tax) shown at checkout. For Peter Hankin, one of central Africa's most experienced professional white hunters, the last safari is over.It is light before Hankin's clients, unarmed and cowering in their tents while listening to the wet feeding sounds, can escape and seek help. He had 222 stitches in his head alone and immense skin and bone grafting work on both head and hands. A large male lion had been stalking him from cover and charged, grabbing him, presumably in the chest, with its teeth. I can't wait to finish it tonight. I asked him why in hell the three men had been sleeping outside when there was a known man-eater in the vicinity. . Never having fired a rifle before, he did not know where the safety catch was or even that there was one. Where was the ammunition? I read four or five books at a time and this is one of the best books I've ever read. 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 . Many times the animal tried to break in, and finally the woman's nerve broke. Silence blanketed the camp."Colin! 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. I'm not much of a reader, but this may have changed that. Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2023. Preview and download books by Peter Hathaway Capstick, including Death in the Long Grass, Death in the Dark Continent and many more. 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. 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. "The young men thought it was too hot to sleep inside their, , Bwana," he replied. 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. Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1466803924 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 320 Download Book. for catching humans. The Aboriginal use of long grass spaces contravenes NT laws. Since the sun was already down, they ran as fast as they could toward the sound and actually caught up with a big lion within shooting distance. Death in the Long Grass 9780417034607 | eBay BUY 3, GET 20% OFF See all eligible items and terms Hover to zoom Have one to sell? The safety was off the .470 and the night sight, an oversized bead of wart hog ivory, which doesn't yellow like elephant ivory, was flipped up for fast sighting in the deep shade. ""It didn't take long to find out about the disturbance. "What are the details? Death In The Long Grass Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick ISBN: 9780312186135 Format: PDF, Mobi Release: 1977 Language: en View An account of the adventures of a big-game hunter offers glimpses of man-eating leopards, fear-maddened elephants, charging buffalo, cunning hyenas, and other great killers of the African bush country The Death Of Grass Joubert, half-retching with horror and disgust, executes her with a shot from his .458 Brno, the 510-grain Winchester soft-point dropping the man-eater lifeless across the body of her victim. ""Bugger hit the village just this side of the Munyamadzi--know it?--around midnight last night, so far as the report goes. I whistled up Silent and told him to get cracking with the normal, for a three-day trip. Death in the Long Grass Peter Hathaway Capstick Published by St. Martins, 1977 Seller: Green River Books, Gainesville, U.S.A. Colin could have easily shot the man-eater, but he did not. And not all the tales had happy endings in an often kill or be killed environs. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges. One of the lions had a shot which had broken its tail--a testimony to my marksmanship. For amoment she hesitates, but her ancestral fear of the smell is washed over by the desperation of her hunger. He would have to be able to see the lioness to risk a safe shot. Corners and cover may show wear. Even if fiction is worth a read. His broken fingers touched something hard: in a flash he realized that it was a rifle barrel, the fallen .243. 56 pages of chapter summaries, quotes, character analysis, themes, and more everything you need to sharpen your knowledge of Death in the Long Grass. ""What remained of the night, I spent firing at lion noises in the grass with the .308. It seemed stuck. White flares of agony rocketed up his arm as the powerful teeth met against his bones, crushing them like pretzel sticks.Slowly the blind, semiconscious De Beer realized that the great weight was gone, that the lioness wasn't biting him anymore. We might be able to stalk him while he was actually eating his kill or intercept him on his way to water before he went to lie up for the hot hours. No blood. This study guide consists of approx. His wit, metaphors, descriptions all resonate--British. Most Africans believe it can never happen to them, something like the attitude of front-line troops. In a few hours Joe Joubert, a professional hunter employed by Hankin's safari firm, a Zambian game guard, and Joubert's safari client, Samuel Lenher of Wilmington, Delaware, are driving hard along the bush road from Joubert's camp at Zokwe to the scene of the tragedy. The safety snicked off the .375 as the Rhodesian paused. 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