African Adventurers : A Return to the Silent Places

English

ISBN: 0312076223

EAN: 9780312076221

Category: Travel / Essays & Travelogues/Sports & Recreation / Hunting/

Publisher: St. Martins Press

Release Date: 07/31/1992

Synopsis: Peter Capstick has been hailed as the adventure-writing successor to Hemingway and Ruark. Only Capstick can write action as cleanly and suspensefully as the best of his predecessors ( Sports Illustrated). This long-awaited sequel to Death in the Silent Places(1981) brings to life four turn-of-the-century adventurers and the savage frontiers they braved. * Frederick Selous, a British hunter, naturalist, and soldier, rewrote the history books with his fearless treks deep into the Dark Continent. * English game ranger Constantine Iodine Ionides saved Tanganyikan villages from man-eating lions and leopards. He also gained lasting fame for his uncanny ability to capture black mambas, cobras, Gaboon vipers, and other deadly snakes. * The dashing Brit Johnny Boyes who gained the chieftainship of the Kikuyu tribe with sheer bravado and survived the ferocious battles and ambushes of intertribal warfare. * And Scottish ex-boxer, Jim Sutherland, one of the best ivory hunters who ever lived. His tracking skills and stamina afoot became the stuff of African hunting legend. If you are a Capstick fan, youll relish The African Adventurers, his eleventh book. Once again he delivers the kind of chilling stories that Hemingway only heard second-hand...with a flair and style that Papa himself would admire ( Guns and Ammo). The authors pungent wit and his authenticity gained from years in the bush make this quartet of vintage heroics an unforgettable return to the silent places.

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African Adventurers : A Return to the Silent Places

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 1.01 inches

Width: 6.38 inches

Length: 9.55 inches

Weight: 17.99 oz

Pages: 256