The
African Adventurers: A Return to the Silent Places
by Peter Hathaway Capstick
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: July, 1992
After
Big Game in Central Africa (Peter Capstick's Library)
by Edouard Foa, Peter Capstick
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: October, 1989
The
Man-Eaters of Tsavo (Peter Capstick Library Series)
by John Henry Patterson
In 1898 John H. Patterson arrived in East Africa with a mission to
build a railway bridge over the Tsavo River. What started out as a simple
engineering problem, however, soon took on almost mythical proportions
as Patterson and his mostly Indian workforce were systematically hunted
by two man-eating lions over the course of several weeks. During that time,
100 workers were killed, and the entire bridge-building project ground
to a halt. As if the lions weren't enough, Patterson had to guard his back
against his own increasingly hostile and mutinous workers as he set out
to track and kill the man-eaters. This larger-than-life tale forms the
basis of the entertaining film The Ghost and the Darkness, but for readers
who want to know the whole--and true--story, The Man-Eaters of Tsavo comes
straight from the great white-hunter's mouth. Patterson's account of the
lions' reign of terror and his own subsequent attempts to kill them is
the stuff of great adventure, and his unmistakably Victorian manner of
telling it only adds to the thrill. Consider this description of the aftermath
of an attack by the lions: "...we at once set out to follow the brutes,
Mr. Dalgairns feeling confident that he had wounded one of them, as there
was a trail on the sand like that of the toes of a broken limb.... we saw
in the gloom what we at first took to be a lion cub; closer inspection,
however, showed it to be the remains of the unfortunate coolie, which the
man-eaters had evidently abandoned at our approach. The legs, one arm and
half the body had been eaten, and it was the stiff fingers of the other
arm trailing along the sand which had left the marks we had taken to be
the trail of a wounded lion...." This classic tale of death, courage, and
terror in the African bush is still a page-turner, even after all these
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Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: January, 1986
Death
in the Long Grass
by Peter Hathaway Capstick
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: February, 1978
A
Man Called Lion
by Peter Hathaway Capstick
Hardcover from Safari Press
Book Published: 2002 |
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Last
Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson
by Peter Hathaway Capstick
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: August, 1988
Maneaters
by Capstick P.H., Peter Hathaway Capstick
Hardcover from Safari Press
Book Published: 1993
Warrior: The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen
by Peter Hathaway Capstick
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African Hunter (Peter Capstick Library Series)
by Baron Bror Von Blixen-Finecke, Bror Von Blixen-Finecke, Bror Blixen-Finecke,
F. H. Lyon
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: January, 1986
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Books
Safari, the Last Adventure: How You Can Share in It
by Peter Hathaway Capstick
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: October, 1984
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Books
Big Game Hunting in North-Eastern Rhodesia (The Peter Capstick Library)
by Owen Letcher, Owen Lechter
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: January, 1987
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Big Game Hunting in Central Africa (Capstick Adventure Library)
by William Buckley, Peter Hathaway Capstick
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: August, 1988
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Books
The Recollections of William Finaughty: Elephant Hunter 1864-1875
(The Peter Capstick Library)
by William Finaughty, Peter Capstick
Hardcover from St. Martin's Press
Book Published: January, 1991
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Books
The Old Man and the Boy & the Old Man's Boy Grows Older/2 Books
in One (Classics of American Sport Series)
by Robert Ruark, Peter Hathaway Capstick
Paperback from Stackpole Books
Book Published: February, 1989
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