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Re: Books on "classic" hunting in Africa...
« Reply #30 on: October 13, 2009, 07:21:11 PM »
the best of them all is Alexander Lake's KILLERS IN AFRICA the truth about animals lying in wait and hunters lying in print.  col Paterson's MAN-EATERS of TSAVO not bad also
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Re: Books on "classic" hunting in Africa...
« Reply #31 on: December 17, 2009, 06:22:42 AM »
Peter Hathaway Capstick was indeed the writer who brought back Africa hunting! He was also a hunter, yes he could tell a story that would keep you captivated until it was finished, somewhat like a kid being told a story of Santa Clause and his reindeer etc.

Peter Hathaway Capstick did do more than his share of hunting African game, including those that we call dangerous game. Sum people were jealous of Peter's success, both with the pen and his hunting of big game, not to mention his abilities to entertain people, with his stories and accomplishments. Peter was an educated man and his number one gift, was his ability to encapsul readers to embrace themselves with the way he portrayed Africa and it's hunting......nobody ever did it any better.

I for one, do thank Peter Capstick for opening my eyes to the world of Africa and instilling in my soul the want to hunt and partake of the country as he told about it in his books. I feel fortunate to have been able to purchase his writings and dream the dream of many hunters. I just wish I could have done so 20 years sooner.........Thank you Peter! 8)

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Re: Books on "classic" hunting in Africa...
« Reply #32 on: December 17, 2009, 06:30:19 AM »
Bluecow......next time your in Chicago, Ill. you can stop by the museum and see eye to eye those "Man Eaters Of Salvo" ;)

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Re: Books on "classic" hunting in Africa...
« Reply #33 on: December 19, 2009, 11:49:32 AM »
Peter Hathaway Capstick was indeed the writer who brought back Africa hunting! He was also a hunter, yes he could tell a story that would keep you captivated until it was finished, somewhat like a kid being told a story of Santa Clause and his reindeer etc.

Peter Hathaway Capstick did do more than his share of hunting African game, including those that we call dangerous game. Sum people were jealous of Peter's success, both with the pen and his hunting of big game, not to mention his abilities to entertain people, with his stories and accomplishments. Peter was an educated man and his number one gift, was his ability to encapsul readers to embrace themselves with the way he portrayed Africa and it's hunting......nobody ever did it any better.

I for one, do thank Peter Capstick for opening my eyes to the world of Africa and instilling in my soul the want to hunt and partake of the country as he told about it in his books. I feel fortunate to have been able to purchase his writings and dream the dream of many hunters. I just wish I could have done so 20 years sooner.........Thank you Peter! 8)


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Re: Books on "classic" hunting in Africa...
« Reply #34 on: March 30, 2010, 02:42:27 PM »
A fine "off topic" book is Maneaters of Kumoan by Jim Corbett. Classic tiger hunting at its best.

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Re: Books on "classic" hunting in Africa...
« Reply #35 on: March 31, 2010, 06:55:02 AM »
A fine "off topic" book is Maneaters of Kumoan by Jim Corbett. Classic tiger hunting at its best.


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Re: Books on "classic" hunting in Africa...
« Reply #36 on: January 23, 2011, 12:44:26 PM »
Killers in Africa by Alexander Lake.  A great read that I encountered in its paperback guise as a teenager.
 Lake hunted Africa around the turn of the 19-20th Centuries.

Also, Hunting in Africa by Frank C. Hibben, in the 1950's.  I read this as a teenager and it was great.  Some terrific stories.  He was hunting Rhino with  PH Andy Holmberg.   They were stalking a large rhino that charged them. As the Rhino was thundering down the trail toward them, Holmberg shouted, "Don't shoot. Poor horn!"   They were able to evade the rhino and did not shoot it, but the mental image left me and others to whom I read that story laughing out loud  with great amusement.  My dad did not believe this story until I showed it to him.  Later when we were hunting together, it was kind of an inside joke between us when we would encounter a doe or small buck deer, "Don't shoot. Poor horn."


Another story involved hunting elephants.  He and his PH  were up in a tree looking at a nearby elephant herd.  Something stampeded the herd in the direction of the tree, and the PH lost his grip and fell over a low hanging branch.  A large elephant bull ran under the tree and the PH's feet dragged along the elephant's back.  After the herd had stampeded off into the distance, the PH looked up and said, with classic British understatement and aplomb, "That was a bit sticky."  

Hibben was an anthropology professor from New Mexico and a skillful writer.  Great storytelling.


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