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

by Peter Hathaway Capstick

For the readers of hunting literature, the name of Peter Capstick is becoming synonymous with excitement, danger, and high adventure. Such highly successful titles as "Death in the Long Grass, Death in the Silent Places, "and "Death in the Dark Continent "have established him as the modern-day master of African adventure writing. Sportsman, adventurer, raconteur par excellence, Capstick has in many ways done for contemporary hunting literature what...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312006705
• ISBN13: 9780312006709
• Release Date: July 1987
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.6" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Book Review

Another really good Capstick book about Africa written in a different mannor than his eairler works.

Another awesome Capstick book

Capstick is definitely my favorite african writer. I enjoyed this book although it is not one of my favorites. However, I ripped through it in several days. Capstick really knew Africa and I certainly have enjoyed reading his experiences!

A Great Return

This is the second Capstick book I have read (the first being "Death in the Long Grass"), and again I was not dissapointed. In this book he takes the role of the safari client--having retired as professional hunter--, and gives us more of an insight on what it is like to be the client on a big game hunting safari in Africa. He vividly describes the sights, sounds, smells, and the very essence of the Dark Continent.

PHC's best

This book is the definitive Capstick work. It is absolutely wonderful, and should be required reading for those who want to go to the Dark Continent and hunt the things that Bite and Trample. Capstick's wit is sparkling. Papa Bear Hemingway would be proud.

This book was sensational.

Return to the Long Grass was probably the best book I have read in years.I could not stop reading it! I could feel the hot African heat and the chilly nights.I would recommend this book to anyone who dreams of going to Africa on a safari