Death in a Lonely Land

More Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents

By: Peter Hathaway Capstick

Narrated by: Paul Maitrejean

From the author of Last Horizons, Peter Hathaway Capstick now presents Death in a Lonely Land, a second volume of his hunting, fishing, and shooting adventures on five continents—stories collected from such magazines as Outdoor Life, NRA’s American Hunter, Guns & Ammo, and Petersen’s Hunting.

The stockbroker-turned-outdoorsman recalls his days as an African pro hunter in “The Killer Baboons of Vlackfontein.” “Four Fangs in a Treetop” records a foray into British Honduras for the jaguar, “a gold-dappled teardrop of motion.” Capstick narrowly escapes the Yellow Beard, Central America’s deadly tree-climbing snake, and cows “The Black Death” (Cape buffalo) in the kind of article that makes this author “the guru of American hunting fans” (New York Newsday). On Brazil’s forsaken Marajo Island, he bags the pugnacious red buffalo, which has the “temperament of a constipated Sumo wrestler and the tenacity of an IRS man.”

The author discusses 12- and 20-gauge shotgun loads; recalls the pleasures of “biltong” (African beef jerky); describes the irresistible homemade lures of snook fishing expert John Gorbatch; and kills a genteel take of Atlantic salmon with the brilliantly simple tube fly.

Death in a Lonely Land is another collector’s item by a writer who “keeps the tradition of great safari adventure alive in each of his books” (African Expedition Gazette).

©1990 Peter Hathaway Capstick (P)2024 Ascend Audio LLC

Capstick is the best hunting and outdoor writer!

Great listen for those of us who enjoy the outdoors and hunting/fishing. The adventures are endless and the author takes you along for a ride!

Good listen, various scenarios that draw you in.

If you like hunting and the outdoors, you will like this work. Many stories, very interesting.

A disappointment from the author

I bought this book because I really enjoy reading about hunting dangerous game. About a quarter of the book is about this; but, considering the title, “DEATH in the Long Grass”, I was expecting a better percentage of accounts of, well, death in the long grass. Recipes, not so great comic relief; and general fluff make up the remainder.
The narrator was decent, minus mispronouncing some rather academic words. So much for editing.
Doubt I’ll be reading any more collections of magazine articles written by this author. They are strictly porcelain throne literature.