The beam showed nothing as I pounded through the village until I came to a hut at the far side with the door hanging from a single leather hinge. 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. This item can be returned in its original condition for a full refund or replacement within 30 days of receipt. There have been literally hundreds of man-eaters reported in the area since 1900 and, as the case of Peter Hankin so horribly demonstrates, there is still not much of a shortage.One pride, for example, the Ubena man-eaters, had been in operation for a full ten years before George Rushby, a game officer of Tanganyika (now Tanzania), and one of the greatest man-eating lion hunters of all time, began to put the screws on them in their thirty by fifty mile range in 1942. Instantly the lioness bit her through the small of the back and shook her like a terrier with a lamb chop. We were back at the Senga village in late afternoon, the brave little hunter grinning from the painkiller I had given him from my flask.I snapped a couple of pictures of the lion with the self-timer and began to skin him. The Aboriginal use of long grass spaces contravenes NT laws. There are things I would less rather do than follow up a wounded lion into thick bush, but none come to mind immediately. I am not a hunter, nor have I any interest in hunting. Save up to 80% versus print by going digital with VitalSource. The movie "Ghost and the Darkness" is one of my very favorite of all. At Shapi was another semivacationing ranger and his family, an experienced man named Willy De Beer, his wife, daughter, and her husband, a student from Salisbury called Colin Matthews. The next instant a lion crashed into the door, closed and jammed with a stick through the frame. In the 1920s it was fashionable for young British bloods to amuse themselves lion hunting on horseback in such areas as the Athi Plains. I almost blew my first lion charge by not compensating for this, but luckily the slug passed through the scalp and broke the spine above the paunch. I was sure it was badly hurt, perhaps crippled because it stayed in the same position without moving away or attempting a charge. Peter Hathaway. Learn more how customers reviews work on Amazon, St. Her impact hurls the man from his bed and onto the ground. He treated all within earshot to a tirade on the lack of government protection from the horrors of the bush. As the lioness lay chewing on his head, she may have thought that the crushing sounds she heard beneath her teeth were the breaking of the skull bone instead of those of the man's hands and fingers. Botswana lions are generally among the largest in Africa. I asked him why in hell the three men had been sleeping outside when there was a known man-eater in the vicinity. **Simply Brit** Shipped with Premium postal service within 24 hours from the UK with impressive delivery time. He bravely held his ground and made the shot nicely, only the bullet broke up in the massive chest muscles of the lion, who proceeded to chew Sir George into small, easily digested chunks before anybody could come to his aid. Download Season Of The Long Grass full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Check more flip ebooks related to (PDF BOOK) Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's . As the saying goes, I kid you not. Capstick started writing about his adventures in the late 1960s and published numerous articles in various sporting magazines. I read four or five books at a time and this is one of the best books As the title says, this book is all about dying and in particular, how Africa tries to do that to you. No spoor, no roaring, no kills. And not all the tales had happy endings in an often kill or be killed environs. 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. Interested in flipbooks about (PDF BOOK) Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush full? It had to be the only recorded instance of a man driving off a marauding lion with a Coke bottle!Not much fancying the probable results of following a hungry man-eater into the dark, I gave Silent my Beretta over/under 12-bore shotgun and a handful of buckshot shells, sending him and Invisible over to the large hut where the rest of my staff slept. Interesting choice. I don't really remember when I began being interested in big game hunters and the "big five". Please try again. Not overly comfortable, to be sure, but those two barrels contained better than 10,000 foot-pounds of wallop, which gives a man considerable peace of mind. We left them behind with the water bag after I removed the cartridges from mine. In addition to writing about hunting, he was also featured in an award-winning safari video and audio tapes. After enough experience, you find your brain never goes completely to sleep, but, like an army posting sentries, keeps partially awake while the main body sleeps. Curiously, there have been many cases of lions actually stepping over one man to pick another, like a bored matron at the canape platter of a cocktail party. 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. In East Africa there are several cases recorded of a lion eating his victim within the sight of paralyzed onlookers.I still get the old flutter-guts when I recall the night in Ngamiland, Botswana, in 1970 when I was sharing a tent with Daryll Dandridge, a fellow professional hunter at the time with Ker, Downey, and Selby Safaris, Ltd. Our campwas pitched hard on the edges of the Okavango Swamp, and, the night being warm, we had not zipped the ends of the tent closed. Good God, we hadn't unpacked them! Like New/Fine. He has no prized ivory or horn; you cannot eat him, although there are some tribes who do so for sympathetic magic; his pelt is not made into coats. It seemed stuck. As we drove along, I felt an urgent tap on the shoulder from Amos, riding in the back of the old Land Rover. The whole camp and our nomad neighbors broke into an uproar, people screaming and running all over the place. He triggered the first shot, then, as fast as his smashed hands could work the bolt action, fired twice more. I swung around a half-turn and looked smack into the puss of the second lion, who uttered a low sound that you didn't have to speak lionese to understand. After ten yards of retreat, he pantomimed that a woman's hand was lying just off the trail and that he could smell the lion. I whistled up Silent and told him to get cracking with the normal, for a three-day trip. Learn more Seller information better_world_books_uk (399231) 99.2% positive Feedback Save seller Read more. Minimal signs of wear. This reflex seems better developed in humans than in most big game, who have few if any natural enemies. Jaguar, yes. Capstick writes with absolute authority on an Africa which is rapidly receding into the past. I lit a cigarette from the flat thirty-pack of Matinees. Actually, I had it salted and presented it to Silent, who believed that sleeping on it would bring back much of the romance of his youth. He taped out at a bit over nine feet, one inch, a very fine trophy. Somehow he tugged it free, the sudden release making him fall backward. by Peter Capstick. Although I was tired, sleep came fitfully; possibly the ever-nearing roar of those lions helped keep my mind occupied. Assurnasirpal II claimed to have done in "370 lions like caged birds" with a spear.In ancient Greece, lion sticking was all the rage. As I left in the hunting car to take Silent to the small dispensary some seventy-five miles away, I warned the headman that if anyone so much as disturbed a whisker of the lion for. Capstick also served in that most perilous of tradesElephant and Buffalo Cropping Officer. Four years later, in the Njombe District of Tanganyika's Southern Province, Rushby was again enlisted to hunt the Njombe man-eaters, a collectivity of feline mayhem that, between the fifteen members of the grisly pride racked up a confirmed score of over 1,500 natives and colonists. "But you've shot my hand off. Snatching up a new flaming brand, she opened the door and ran for the village, right past the lion, who let her go. I stopped by the Italians' hut to advise them of the state of affairs and was able to talk them out of their .460 Weatherby magnum elephant guns, figuring that a pair of tyros opening up blindly at some night noise with those cannons could well have tragic consequences. She came through, and soon I was assembling my .308 rifle and shotgun. Beautiful stories and vivid descriptions. The Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush book is in average demand now as the rank for the book is 35,593 at the moment. Based on Capstick's own experiences and the personal accounts of his colleagues, Death in the Long Grass portrays the great killers of the African bush-- not 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 Whichever, it probably saved his life. ""As night closed in, we retired to our cots and mosquito netting. Similarly, if it's not getting enough water, the grass will die. Pieces of dry grass and dust shook down cloudlike from the roof into my hair and eyes. Over. In the beam of the light was clear evidence of a scuffle, the smooth earth torn by striations of long claw marks. I shouted to the client to take the second one since it seemed to have a better mane. The plot concerns a virus that kills off grass species, including rice and wheat. Unfortunately, her heroism was for naught since the man died shortly from his wounds. Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2022. If they were made the night before, the standard procedure is to say your prayers, load your heavy rifle, and follow the tracks to the point where the lion has "lain up" for the hot daylight hours, usually sleeping in the thickest tangle of crud it can find until it cools off and darkness falls.The impossibly slow and hopefully soundless creeping through the blast-furnace heat of midday, with visibility often less than ten yards, is enough to rattle the nerves of a snake charmer. Bending down, I defined the clear pugmark of a big, male lion. 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. The bare, beaten earth outside the hut was empty. that the lion coughed before beginning his charge. , an area swampy in the rains but dry in winter. Some of these items ship sooner than the others. By the sounds, the lioness was standing over Colin's body. I sent Amos back for the Rover and my driver, Elias, who pulled up on the road shortly.Although this particular car was open, a raised plank on a pipe framework over the pickup bed had been built for photography and better visibility in heavy cover. My client was doing everything right except for one minor item: he had forgotten to pull the trigger. My mind raced like a flywheel: What'll it be, boy, lion or crocs? Very bad form, indeed. She stifles an involuntary growl, her black upper lip curled back to show thick, long fangs. How many Detroit schoolteachers do you think the tour mongers in Kenya's national parks would have signed up last year if word had gotten out about the photographer who was pulled out of his tent by the head and eaten down to his toenails by a solitary. 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. Sometimes, however, the victim is grasped by the body and dragged off to be eaten alive. There was a long pause and I knew he was coming. The man-eater gave a terrific tug and the claws ripped forward, tearing De Beer's scalp loose from his skull until it hung over his face like a dripping, hairy, red beret. I could see the tightness of his knuckles on the knobby, thornwood shaft of the spear. Today (April 17) coincides with Lexin. takes us deep into the heart of darkness to view Africa through the eyes of one of the most renowned professional hunters. When I had the aerial rigged after breakfast, he answered my call immediately. The millet and sorghum beer the tribes brew and drink keeps fermenting in their stomachs until the celebrants pass into a comatose sleep wherever they happen to lie down. May be missing dust jacket. After all, he had already proven ten times that he had no natural fear of man--the fear that can give the hunter an edge.I thought about Paul Nielssen's mauling in the past year within this same strip of bush, about five miles upriver. Death In The Long Grass Author: Peter Hathaway Capstick ISBN: 9780312186135 Format: PDF, Mobi Release: 1977 Language: en View An account of the adventures of a big-game hunter offers glimpses of man-eating leopards, fear-maddened elephants, charging buffalo, cunning hyenas, and other great killers of the African bush country The Death Of Grass Hard cover, pages and spline in otherwise excellent condition. Slightly after 11 P.M. a large lioness leaped through the window of the hut, hurling Jean from her bed to the floor. Awkwardly, he reversed the rifle, found the safety, and, still unseeing, listened to determine where to fire. At five yards she gathers her hind legs beneath her flattened, lean body, the hind claws gripping the earth for purchase. Seconds pass, then the lioness rises and begins to ooze forward, gliding like a tawny wraith between deep clumps of shadow. Wounded lions' scores for homicide are probably about as high as genuine man-eaters, but obviously the moral considerations are quite different. Hans Besser, a German hunter early in this century, told of a missionary of the White Fathers in Tanganyika being carried off and taking fifteen minutes to die while the lion ate him. With a loaded rifle and shotgun, I ventured into the now-lighted grass which had so nearly proved my undoing. Catch-22, Afro style. We got within what seemed like inches of that lion, when he let out a fine roar, almost as if he didn't like us there. Lions are not at all above scavenging and take to moderately decomposed carrion quite nicely, thanks very much. Great book with amazing stories, book itself brand new and in perfect condition. 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