The African Adventurers: A Return to the Silent Places, Hardcover - Peter Hathaway Capstick

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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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