Peter Capstick's Africa: A Return to the Long Grass

by Peter Hathaway Capstick, Paul Kimble (Photographer), Richard van Niekerk (Photographer)

Peter Hathaway Capstick is a name synonymous with excitement, danger, and high adventure. Sportsman, adventurer, raconteur par excellence, Capstick has been recognized as a modern-day master of African hunting literature—a successor to the works of Hemingway and Robert Ruark.Capstick has written post facto about classic hunters of the past and safaris in which he participated as a professional hunter in such books as Death in the Silent Places and Death in the Dark Continent. Now, he presents an enthralling tale of an entirely new safari, an exciting first-person adventure of his own dangerous and very personal excursion. The result is a definitive work on African hunting, and one of his greatest achievements.In 1985, Capstick went back into the African bush with two top photographers and a crack professional hunter. It was a venture taken for personal challenge, and for the chance to look anew at what had become of the Africa immortalized in his own earlier works. Peter Capstick’s A Return to the Long Grass is the chronicle, in text and pictures, of this safari. It is full of the same edge-of-the-seat narration, witty anecdotes, and wry observations that have made Capstick’s earlier books so popular. The text of the book has been integrated with the photographs of Paul Kimble and Dick van Niekerk into a lavish full-color production that illustrates Capstick’s narrative in a way his fans have never seen before.

Genres: Nonfiction, Adventure, Africa

315 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 15, 1987

About the author

Peter Hathaway Capstick was an American hunter and author. Born in New Jersey and educated at (although did not graduate from) the University of Virginia, he walked away from a successful Wall Street career shortly before his thirtieth birthday to become a professional hunter, first in Central and South America and later (and most famously) in Africa. Capstick spent much of his life in Africa, a land he called his "source of inspiration." A chain smoker and heavy drinker, he died at age 56 from complications following heart surgery.

Reviews

[Ron · Rating 4 out of 5]

His stories are utterly amazing fascinating and exciting.

He left behind a white collar job, to become a big game hunter, game warden and a world-renown gun and hunting expert.

Some of his stories will make your hair stand on end!

[Christopher · Rating 5 out of 5]

A bit more philosophical than most capstick books

As always an amazing author writing about amazing this in amazing places. This book seems a little more philosophical than his other books.

[Alex Kennedy · Rating 5 out of 5]

For me this was an amazing trip into another world, into hunting on safari.

[Stu · Rating 5 out of 5]

This sort of photo journal of Capstick's journey through the long grass is absolutely outstanding! I read it as a boy and still appreciate the immense quality of story today as an adult.