It dawned on him that the lioness must be standing on the stock. If interested please advise re post code for postage estimate. The man, named Teapot, heard the struggle and the first scream and bounded off his mat to the door. A classic example took place at the close of the last century when no less a power than the empire of Queen Victoria was thwarted in its imperial designs by eight man-eaters who halted construction of the so called Lunatic Express, the Uganda Railroad, as it passed through south-east Kenya. There was a problem loading your book clubs. It's a real eye opener and written with such a fantastic turn of phrase as you make you laugh out loud from time to time. It grabbed the boy by the skull from between the unarmed mother and father and dragged him out of the Land Rover, severely mauling him until, somehow, the father was able to reclaim his son. They did not go away, though; they just stayed out in the high grass adjacent the camp and growled. For proof to the contrary, it is interesting to consult the excellent table compiled by Peter Turnbull-Kemp, the well-known South African game ranger and author, on the age and condition of eighty-nine known lion man-eaters at death: 91 percent of the killers were either in "good" or "fair" condition when disposed of; only 13.3 percent were "aged" and uninjured, and a mere 4.4 percent aged and injured by any cause, including man.Aside from those lions forced through injury to a life of homicide, there are many ways that normal lions may take up man-eating. A Spanish client, Armando Bassi of Barcelona, a fine hunter, had wounded a good-maned lion, but it had escapedinto the thick, before Paul could get in a finishing shot. I had come close enough, theoretically, to being a statistic on both occasions to never again underestimate a man-eating feline.I rigged the mosquito netting and took my weekly malaria pill as Silent maneuvered the extra thorn bushes across the barrier. portrays the great killers of the African bushnot only the lion, leopard, and elephant, but the primitive rhino and the crocodile waiting for its unsuspecting prey, the titanic hippo and the Cape buffalo charging like an express train out of control. I grabbedthe rifle and electric torch, pulled the thorn fence away, and dashed barefoot toward the screams. I was sure it was badly hurt, perhaps crippled because it stayed in the same position without moving away or attempting a charge. If I had let it eat maybe a leg or two before shooting it, all would have been well. His wit, metaphors, descriptions all resonate--British. In the light of the small plant he grabbed a Model 70 Winchester in .375 H&H caliber, and a Parker-Hale .243, both bolt-action rifles, along with a handful of cartridges for each. I told them, and myself, that the odds of the lion returning were pretty slim, but when I left, that hut was better defended than the Alamo. Certainly early man confronted him in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic periods, and the tradition of lion hunting as one of the most respected pastimes continued well into the earliest civilizations, which have left us records of early hunts.Many of the first advanced cultures' monarchs must have concentrated a great deal of their time on perforating lions for fun and profit. In 1969 on the Luangwa I was sharing a hut with Brian Smith, a young professional hunter, in Mwangwalala camp, which was located about 150 yards from the main camp used by the clients. Two months after the attack his head was still swollen twice the normal size, and he continued to suffer from dizziness and ringing in the ears. Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. This book give us some . Add to this the blood-curdling vocal display that accompanies the rush, and you will see why there have been many men who never even got a shot off, let alone a winner. To treat your dead grass, run a lawn tiller over the grass and water it every day for a week to help it . Hardcover. With all his strength he belted the lion across the muzzle with it, then again. His writing style remains undated, as readable as a tabloid newspaper and as exciting as any Forsyth thriller. "Death in the Long Grass" is about the author's (Peter Hathaway Capstick) experience as a white hunter in Africa, and his close encounters with the various creatures there that either wanted to eat, trample, gore, or bite him and his associates.This is not an informational guide about either hunting or Africa. The whole camp and our nomad neighbors broke into an uproar, people screaming and running all over the place. The scissor-shaped incisors sheared away huge chunks of meat from buttocks and thighs, the lion chewing with the side of his muzzle until his face and chest were covered with dark gore. I enjoyed his writing and perspective. He seems to love big, powerful guns/rifles/shotguns, but a close second favorite of his is a round (or three) of "sundowners", hefty glasses of scotch/whiskey/good, really good wine. His preying eyes slipped carefully across the village, but all was still--none of the hairless animals in sight.In a low, hunch-shouldered crouch, he slinked toward the rear of a darkened hut, his huge paws soundless against the packed red clay. Colin Matthews has had many operations on his hand, but it is not expected to be of much use to him again. It is normal between a hunter and his gunbearer/tracker that the first spoors while the other covers the possibility of an ambush charge. An animal that can and does kill Cape buffalo with a single bite doesn't waste much time sorting out a mere human.As we approached the thick cover, Silent and I stopped to peel off our bush jackets lest they scrape against a branch or thorn giving away our presence or position. It was an interesting few minutes. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. Through all the firing, he had stayed not ten feet from the wounded one and, if the American had not spotted his creeping up on me, I would likely have been given the New Look. As he fought with the little Parker-Hale to make it fire, the incredible, unbelievable,unthinkable happened: Colin Matthews put his foot into a galvanized bucket hidden in the shadows, lost his balance, and fell, dropping the precious rifle.The lioness looked up, her bloody mouth twisted into a snarl. Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Safari. In her death throes, she had moved down the young man's body and, in a final reflex, bitten the kneecap completelyoff Colin's leg. Her beauty, h." Download Season Of The Long Grass full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. by Peter Capstick. He stopped. A pulsing fountain burst from the wound in a tall throbbing geyser as I thrust it back again, working it with all the strength of my arms. Crawling into the nightmare tangles of thorn on your hands and knees after a big male lion may have very different consequences from kicking a cottontail rabbit out of a Connecticut brush pile, although in each case the sport is called hunting.But for his skin as a personal trophy, the lion is hunted entirely as a personal challenge. Alberta is home to some of the worlds biggest mule deer. It worked, since she backed up, but not without some violent muttering. takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters. In a two-day period, three lions had become increasingly bold, even to the point of entering the camp and eating chickens belonging to the native staff. With my heightened senses, I could now hear the animal padding through the soft dirt outside the hut, looking for a weak point. 9x6x1. No lions. My nerves were further jangled when the second client screamed, "Watch it! At all. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Over. I had tried hunting lion in this cover before, harrying them through the jungles of waxy, green, , a dense, house-high shrub that grows like a beach umbrella with the handle cut off, in hope of getting my clients a quick shot as the cats crossed the open channels between the heavier clumps. On the anniversary of Watan's death, some people went up to the mountain to lay flowers, complaining that the city government hadn't held any commemorative activities, that there were mounds of dirt and weeds in the park that hadn't been cleaned up . Impasse. As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick's Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters. Still conscious, Len screamed for his wife to get out of the hut and run. The Man-eaters of Tsavo treated the project as one extended buffet table, their accomplishment having been to have eaten more imported Indian coolies than it took to film. Only now did I realize how close I had come to being the Chabunkwa lion's eleventh victim. At the time I was given this report by the father, who stayed several days with us in Rhodesia this past season, the complete extent of the boy's injuries was yet unknown, although some brain damage was suspected. If most of the emerging, game-rich countries ever published figures on how many people are killed and eaten by a variety of carnivores within their borders, there would be a tourist recession that would make Black Tuesday look like St. Swithin's Eve.Of course, nobody knows for certain exactly how many people are eaten, the very nature of man-eating having a decided tendency to make evidence somewhat scarce. Aware, from related incidents, of the Zambian Game Department's policy on the killing of unlicensed game, I knew that the department would conclude that since the lion had not actually eaten me, there was no proof that it was a man-eater, and I was therefore guilty of lion poaching. I took away one lesson for sure: the next time a district commissioner asks me for a favor, I'm going to have a severe attack of radio trouble. Of course, a pharaonic lion hunt must have made a duke's Scottish grouse drive look like a girl scout outing. Somehow he tugged it free, the sudden release making him fall backward. See details Silent started off on the now-cold trail carrying the water bag, a pouch of biltong (wind- and shade-dried meat), and his long spear.The afternoon sun seared our shoulders as we followed the spoor into the bush and finally found the spot in the, where the lion had settled down for his meal.The prints of the hyena were over those of the cat, and the most we could recover was a tooth-scarred chunk of lower jawbone and some splinters of unidentifiable bone. The first time a lion returns to a human kill to finish his meal and receives a whiplash of bullet from a bad shot, you can bet the beer money he won't make the same mistake twice. "Before De Beer could answer, Matthews gave another scream, which mixed with a grunt from the dying lioness. Also, I knew there was more than one wounded lion in there, not forgetting the companion who had notreappeared nor shown himself after disappearing into the hardwoods that ringed the. My mind raced like a flywheel: What'll it be, boy, lion or crocs? It was still breathing. Imagine the number of people they had eaten in the ten years they operated unmolested! Wounded lions' scores for homicide are probably about as high as genuine man-eaters, but obviously the moral considerations are quite different. The List Price is the suggested retail price of a new product as provided by a manufacturer, supplier, or seller. But, I've had plenty of friends who are firsthand experts on the subject. One paw ripped through the grass like shredded newspaper, the lion tearing chunks from the hard, wood frame with his teeth. A dark green stretch of towering, loomed ahead in the moonlight, and the killer made for it, dragging the man deep into one of the tunnels of the tangled boughs. A very attention-getting grunt sounded from the grass about twenty feet away, and a most determined-looking lioness stepped onto the path and flattened herself. In this novel, Alex's uncle dies in what he is told is a car accident. I have never seen his like since.I am indebted to John W. Cox, my good friend and a noted sportsman, once the owner of such larger-than-a-breadbox items as Yankee Stadium, for permission to print an account of his adventures one dark night in the 1950s in Chad. Less than an hour later we were boiling through the growing heat and billowing dust to the village of Kampisi.Kampisi looked like most in Zambia's Eastern Province--shabbyand dusty with a ragtag collection of snarling curs and tired-looking people, hordes of spindle-legged children who would not reach puberty. That said, you do not need to be a hunter to appreciate this book. Corners and cover may show wear. In researching this book among many hundreds of previous works that date as far back as the first decade of the eighteenth century, I have noticed one conclusion as to the cause of man-eating that seems to recur. Huge bands of beaters concentrated the game while the pharaoh shot them with arrows from his chariot. Finished, they backed away to the truck and got out of there.Lions do very odd things to otherwise stable, soberpeople. ""No one had been bitten. Jaguar, yes. You can return the item for any reason in new and unused condition: no shipping charges. As Johnnie Cox tells it:"We would miss him, but, after all, we were well ensconced at our water hole. My client was doing everything right except for one minor item: he had forgotten to pull the trigger. I couldn't say for sure, but in my experience a Botswana lion is as likely to charge on sight at close quarters as not.Because of the loose, sandy texture of the soil, tracking is quite easy in this area. She lashed out of the blackness and caught De Beer behind the head at the base of the skull, the two-inch talons driving to bone and holding him like great fishhooks. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can . - Jacket flap. Read less. Condition: Near Fine. "Keep on it, Old Boy," he told me.I did not think the man-eater would kill again tonight because of the size of his meal the night before. Please try again. He triggered the first shot, then, as fast as his smashed hands could work the bolt action, fired twice more. Were they a man-eating pride? We might be able to stalk him while he was actually eating his kill or intercept him on his way to water before he went to lie up for the hot hours. Rather than risk spooking whatever it might be, I continued another half-mile down the road before stopping. There was no proof, but circumstantial evidence pointed to the fact that the big, healthy, glossy-coated cat (who is now a full-mount in Milano) had decided that things were getting a bit hot where he was operating and moved south, just happening to pick the wrong hut for his first foray in a new zone. There was no point in continuing to follow the cold trail since darkness was only an hour off and we both knew the most heavily armed man is no match for a lion's stealth at night.Arriving back at Kampisi about dark, I had two hours to kill before my radio schedule with the D.C. This is not a book for the squeamish but it remains essential reading for anyone planning to visit Africa with a camera or a rifle. For some reason the lion then turned on Paul's legs and began chewing, as I recall, on his left thigh. Installing the two clients atop this with me, I had Elias carefully drive toward the continuing growls, the bumper of the car's front flattening the grass ahead of us.As we came closer, perhaps seven or eight yards, we saw some movement at the place from which the growling was coming and instantly fired. I'm not the squeamish sort, but when you have just finished putting what is left of a man in a coffee tin for burial, it does give pause for thought. Perhaps covering his head was a conscious gesture, perhaps reflex. Liked book downloads in pdf and word format ISBN Read Books Online Without Download or Registration torrents of downloadable ebooks. As thrilling as any novel, as taut and exciting as any adventure story, Peter Hathaway Capstick's Death in the Long Grass takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes. Two big feathers of flame erupted from the muzzles as I raised the double rifle, sighted on the spot where the cat seemed to be, and pressed the triggers. Where was the ammunition? Then, against the eighteen-inch open strip that ran under the flat roof for ventilation, a dark lump was silhouetted against the slightly lighter sky. Self publishing . Death in the long grass: Myanmar's snake bite menace Snake charmer Sein Tin cannot remember how many times he's been bitten by snakes, but he believes the writhing tattoos that coil around his arms and body, several depicting Myanmar's mythical "naga" sea serpent, have saved him from mortal wounds. I don't really remember when I began being interested in big game hunters and the "big five". But if you blow it, it may cost many dozens of lives before you have another chance.Just as he does when hunting zebra or wildebeest, a lion, having chosen a victim, will usually stick with his choice, no matter how many other animals pass within easier reach. "Also," he said, shuffling the dirt with a big toe, "they were a little bit drunk." I asked him why in hell the three men had been sleeping outside when there was a known man-eater in the vicinity. The man was still staring in horror, mumbling gibberish. become man-eaters. Ithink we will find this eater of people this day." The only possible way to counter the odds of this happening is to be so incredibly careful as to forestall the inevitable as long as possible. He wing-shot it, though a bit far back, and it rose into the air with a terrible roar, rearing like a hooked tarpon. Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 1466803924 Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 320 Download Book. He was buried the next day. Check more flip ebooks related to (PDF BOOK) Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's . Death in the Long Grass 1LionIt is nearly three o'clock in the sweltering morning of September 2, 1974.In four hot, still hours dawn will hemorrhage like a fresh wound in the sky over the eastern Muchingas, the great, towering walls that confine the upper reaches of the Luangwa River in Zambia's Eastern Province. Quantity: 1 Add to Basket Hardcover. Silent ruled out the possibility of this being another lion; one glance at a set of week-old prints and my gunbearer could tell you that lion's favorite color as well as his probable political leanings. Almost without exception, until the publication of Patterson's book on the Tsavo lions in 1907, man-eaters were traditionally reported to be poor, broken-down, tooth-worn, crippled "brutes" who ate people for a living only because they had been injured by nasty hunters, porcupine quills, and the like. The lioness' breath gagged him as she tried to get his face into her mouth, but, because the paw she was holding him with was in the way, she failed. Hook-and-bullet adventures had by tough guys such as Teddy Roosevelt and Papa Hemingway may be out of favor in these times of eco-awareness, but Peter Hathaway Capstick's account of big-game hunting in Africa remains a classic. Armando Bassi, hearing the mauling, jumped out of his tree and ran blindly after Paul. Readers can lean back in a chair, sip a tall, iced drink, and revel in the kinds of hunting stories Hemingway and Ruark used to hear in hotel bars from Nairobi to Johannesburg, as veteran hunters would tell of what they heard beyond the campfire and saw through the sights of an express rifle. Pieces of dry grass and dust shook down cloudlike from the roof into my hair and eyes. , as natural ponds and flowages are called. Excerpt. Snarling fit to freeze the man's blood, he tore away a section of the grass wall and squeezed his head through, right next to Silent's waist.The little gunbearer scrambled around the floor trying to find his spear without success. I started reading it last night, and couldn't put it down. All rights reserved. In a few hours Joe Joubert, a professional hunter employed by Hankin's safari firm, a Zambian game guard, and Joubert's safari client, Samuel Lenher of Wilmington, Delaware, are driving hard along the bush road from Joubert's camp at Zokwe to the scene of the tragedy. . I just read it again, and loved it just as much as when it was first published What does kick into the long grass expression mean? By the time I'd finished the first chapter of his first book, Death in the Long Grass, it seemed perfectly reasonable to me to abandon my burgeoning career as Capstick had and try my hand as a professional hunter as Capstick did. Many African tribes still cling to the custom of discarding their aged and dying members without burial in the bush, which, when you think about it, is tantamount to teaching lions to feed on man. Amazon has encountered an error. The killing of a lion seems to excite Africans more than any other species, and this was no exception. Because of the great personal danger inherent in sport hunting for lions under modern conditions, it might be said that hunting lion on foot in the thick covers of central Africa is the purest expression of the honest sport of hunting. "Sorry to bugger your holiday," he told me, "but something's come up . Matthews was still struggling to remove the bucket from his foot when the lioness slammed into him. "He reckoned that would be a fine idea. Capstick was a born raconteur whose colorful descriptions and eye for exciting, authentic detail bring us face to face with some of the most ferocious killers in the worldunderrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog. After giving up his career, the New Jersey native hunted in Central and South America before going to Africa in 1968, where he held professional hunting licenses in Ethiopia, Zambia, Botswana, and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). Probably, most legally shot lions today are killed by stalking, usually after they have been heard roaring near dawn. At least those shots might keep the lions in the grass and out of camp. In the 1920s it was fashionable for young British bloods to amuse themselves lion hunting on horseback in such areas as the Athi Plains. He managed to shout that a lion had him, and his wife bravely snatched up a flaming stick from the campfire and beat the lion in the face with it. I grabbed it and ran over to the lion from behind, the cat still chewing thoughtfully on Silent's arm. The next instant a lion crashed into the door, closed and jammed with a stick through the frame. Places Africa. He had almost without doubt stood there to sniff my head as I slept blithely on. 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