Peter Hathaway Capstick first earned a name as an outdoor writer in the pages of such magazines as Guns & Ammo Petersens Hunting The American Hunter and Outdoor Life. In this the first of a two-volume collection of his hunting fishing and shooting tales youll find twenty-four examples of his keen eye and steady hand with rifle shotgun bow and typewriter. The critically acclaimed successor to Hemingway and Robert Ruark repeatedly put himself in harms way and writes about close scrapes with his trademark wit and dash. He tells what its like to be in the path of an express train with Horns--the Cape buffalo; describes the heart-stopping sensation of sharing the immediate bush with several sickle-clawed lions that most certainly were prone to argue; and recounts his adventures bow-fishing for exotic species in the piranha-filled rivers of Brazil. Capsticks experiences painfully gained (and almost lost) with the most dangerous of game are the yardsticks against which most modern exotic and hunting adventures are gauged. The finely rendered drawings by Dino Paravano do justice to the text.
