Death in the Long Grass
A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush
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Luke Oldham
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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.
Few men can say they have known Africa as Capstick has known it, leading safaris through lion country; tracking man-eating leopards along tangled jungle paths; running for cover as fear-maddened elephants stampede in all directions. And of the few who have known this dangerous way of life, fewer still can recount their adventures with the flair of this former professional hunter-turned-writer.
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 of control. 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 world underrated killers like the surprisingly brave and cunning hyena, silent killers such as the lightning-fast black mamba snake, collective killers like the wild dog.
Listeners 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.
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Good listen, various scenarios that draw you in.
- By Propman2702 on 03-17-25
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The African Adventurers
- A Return to the Silent Places
- By: Peter Hathaway Capstick
- Narrated by: Paul Maitrejean
- Length: 8 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 9
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Story5 out of 5 stars 9
Hailed as the adventure-writing successor to Hemingway and Ruark, only Peter Hathaway 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 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 Africa. * English game ranger Constantine “Iodine” Ionides saved Tanganyikan villages from man-eating lions and leopards.
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The Last Ivory Hunter
- The Saga of Wally Johnson
- By: Peter Hathaway Capstick
- Narrated by: Paul Maitrejean
- Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 17
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Story5 out of 5 stars 17
A chance meeting around a safari campfire on the banks of the Mupamadazi River leads to The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson, a grand tale of African adventure by renowned hunting author Peter Hathaway Capstick. Wally Johnson spent half a century in Mozambique hunting white gold—ivory. Most men died at this hazardous trade. He’s the last one able to tell his story.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best Capstick books.
- By Pete Gray on 01-29-25
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Horn of the Hunter
- The Story of an African Safari
- By: R. Ruark
- Narrated by: Paul Maitrejean
- Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 3
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 3
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Story5 out of 5 stars 3
The story of the author and his wife's two-month safari in East Africa in the 1950s. Ruark's philosophies are intertwined in the hunting stories to make unforgettable listening.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Dangerous Hunts
- By Douglas A. Twitty on 05-28-25
By: R. Ruark
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo
- By: John Patterson
- Narrated by: Marco Mintaka
- Length: 7 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 76
The true story of John Patterson in Tsalvo written by Patterson. In the book, lions are terrorizing the workers of the railroad near the turn of the century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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great old fashioned story.
- By Amazon Customer on 10-13-21
By: John Patterson
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Man-Eaters of Kumaon
- By: Jim Corbett
- Narrated by: Clay Lomakayu
- Length: 8 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Story5 out of 5 stars 76
Her tracks now–as she carried away the girl–led into the wilderness of rocks, some acres in extent, where the going was both difficult and dangerous. The cracks and chasms in between the rocks were masked with ferns, blackberry vines, and a false step, which might easily have resulted in a broken limb, would have been fatal.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love passed from father to son
- By TexasBowHunter on 05-12-23
By: Jim Corbett
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Last Horizons
- Hunting, Fishing, and Shooting on Five Continents
- By: Peter Hathaway Capstick
- Narrated by: Paul Maitrejean
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 13
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 10
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Story5 out of 5 stars 10
Peter Hathaway Capstick first earned a name as an outdoor writer in the pages of such magazines as Guns & Ammo, Petersen’s Hunting, The American Hunter, and Outdoor Life. In Last Horizons, the first of a two-volume collection of his hunting, fishing, and shooting tales, Capstick shares twenty-four stories of his keen eye and steady hand with rifle, shotgun, bow, and typewriter.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Everything was great!!!
- By Douglas A. Twitty on 06-03-25
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The Poacher's Nightmare
- Stories of an Undercover Game Warden
- By: Kennie Prince, James L. Cummins - editor, Alfred Nichols - foreword
- Narrated by: Chris Abernathy
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 33
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 33
The Poacher's Nightmare: Stories of an Undercover Game Warden contains dozens of hair-raising accounts of covert wildlife operations, often spanning years, requiring ingenious planning, complicated secrecy, and deft coordination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Of a former outlaw
- By waprracher on 02-12-25
By: Kennie Prince, and others
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Cries of the Savanna
- An Adventure. An Awakening. A Journey to Understanding African Wildlife Conservation
- By: Sue Tidwell
- Narrated by: Sue Tidwell, Lilian Mremi, Tanzanian Game Scout, and others
- Length: 14 hrs and 57 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 12
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 11
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 11
Sue Tidwell lived in awe of Africa’s extraordinary wildlife. After years spent appreciating the animals in her imagination, the tenderhearted American hated the idea of joining her husband on a big game hunting safari. And getting attacked by blood-sucking tsetse flies the moment she stepped off the plane gave no hint of the mind-blowing change of perspective in her future. With her initial animosity turning into curiosity as they breathlessly tracked dangerous beasts, Sue formed a surprising bond with their young female government-assigned game scout.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An African “Boots on the Ground” Story: Truth and Facts Dispel Arrogance and Ignorance
- By Ray C on 08-22-23
By: Sue Tidwell
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White Hunters
- By: Brian Herne
- Narrated by: Robert Whitfield
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 401
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 397
A little over 100 years ago, East Africa was terra incognita to most whites: a land largely unmapped, sparsely settled by Europeans, and teeming with wildlife. It was the hunter-adventurer's paradise, and by the early 20th century, a small, lionhearted clan of explorers and big-game hunters began leading safaris there for money.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fascinating account ....
- By Stephen on 01-12-07
By: Brian Herne
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From Out of the Yukon
- A Backcountry Adventure Hunting Big-Game in the Northern Wilderness
- By: James H. Bond
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 7 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 19
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Performance3.5 out of 5 stars 18
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Story5 out of 5 stars 18
From out of these mountains come many things. . . Here is a big game hunting story from the greatest hunting grounds in the world. From a time when they were wholly unknown. Yukon Territory in the 1940's was very much a frontier state with much of what the Jim Bond explored uncharted and unpenetrated except by the occasional prospector and trappers. The first sport hunter in the area, the author provided valuable documentation of how wildlife fares in a wilderness without any human interference as well as relating his exceptional hunting experiences. From Whitehorse, the largest "city" of ...
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2 out of 5 stars
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Don't listen to this audiobook
- By Cory on 01-13-25
By: James H. Bond
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The Old Man and the Boy
- By: Robert Ruark
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 537
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 483
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Story5 out of 5 stars 479
This classic captures the endearing relationship between a man and his grandson as they fish and hunt the lakes and woods of North Carolina. All the while the Old Man acts as teacher and guide, passing on his wisdom and life experiences to the boy, who listens in rapt fascination.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad to see this Classic on Audible
- By Sean Jeffries on 01-03-19
By: Robert Ruark
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MeatEater's Campfire Stories: Close Calls
- By: Steven Rinella
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella, the Contributors
- Length: 5 hrs and 15 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 6,117
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 5,410
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Story5 out of 5 stars 5,386
In Campfire Stories: Close Calls, Steven Rinella invites seasoned hunters, anglers, adventurers, and outdoor professionals to share their tales of perilous adventures in the natural world, from run-ins with black bears and grizzlies to bad falls and severe hypothermia.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Incredible
- By Jay Sellmer on 07-20-21
By: Steven Rinella
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Meat Eater
- Adventures from the Life of an American Hunter
- By: Steven Rinella
- Narrated by: Steven Rinella
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 450
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 418
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Story5 out of 5 stars 418
Meat Eater chronicles Rinella’s lifelong relationship with nature and hunting through the lens of ten hunts, beginning when he was an aspiring mountain man at age ten and ending as a thirty-seven-year-old Brooklyn father who hunts in the remotest corners of North America.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book, chapter 7 is glitchy
- By Amazon Customer on 05-21-25
By: Steven Rinella
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The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures
- By: J. H. Patterson
- Narrated by: Christopher Romance
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 82
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 72
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 71
In 1898, the British were building a railway line between Mombasa in Kenya and Uganda. At the Tsavo River in Kenya where a bridge needed to be built, the project was suddenly interrupted by two man-eating lions that targeted the camps of the workers. Over a period of nine months, the lions killed scores of people. These lions were deliberately hunting people, preferring humans over any other prey, and they seemed to have supernatural abilities in evading all attempts to stop them. Colonel J.H. Patterson, the chief engineer in charge of the project, finally managed to eliminate them.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Narrator ruined an excellent book!
- By Cliff Moore on 01-13-21
By: J. H. Patterson
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Jim Bridger
- Trailblazer of the American West
- By: Jerry Enzler
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 13 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 575
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 517
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 516
Even among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Fremont, Kit Carson, and Jedediah Smith, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration, he lived the life legends are made of. Here, in a biography that finally gives this outsize character his due, Jerry Enzler takes this frontiersman's full measure for the first time—and tells a story that would do Jim Bridger proud.
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5 out of 5 stars
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JIM BRIDGER A CHARACTER WITH CHARACTER
- By Sword of Truth on 07-18-24
By: Jerry Enzler
Story telling
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One of my favorite authors
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Heavy dose of reality
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story telling skill
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An African Hunting Classic
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Capstick has a wonderful writing style and a wealth of experience which combine to give the reader a “you are there” experience. He has written a number of fine books and this one is perhaps my favorite. I can’t say enough how happy I am to see his wonderful books finally in the audio format.
One of my all time favorites!!!
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Today this book showed up on my Audible recomendations. I've been waiting for this for the 12 years I've been listening to Audible books.
I bought both books immediately.
PLEASE read the rest of his books!
These are the best hunting books I've ever read.
The reading of them it great!
Thank you!
Finally!!
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Finally!! Capstick books on Audio!!
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One of the best books of its kind!
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Very good
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