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armstroc 's review for:
Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush
by Peter Hathaway Capstick
This was an interesting book to read after having been to Africa. I'm not sure if things have changed drastically in the 30 or so years of publishing this book or if I experienced something completely different. There was far more danger in this book than on the safaris that we went on. Capstick tells stories of his life as a Great White Hunter all over Africa. He hunted everything you could hunt and would tell how each of the animals could kill you. There were man-eating lions and leopards as well as man-crushing elephants, Cape Buffalos and rhinos. It is certainly a different view of hunting for sport.
His writing is rather humorous. He seems to have a sense of humor though I wondered at times if he got hold of some twisted thesaurus. He would describe "humidity that hung like a barber towel" and a "shriek that would curdle Bernaise sauce". The book is littered with these metaphors and similes. My favorites were within sentences of each other: "As the ammonia of his urine slaps you in the face, like a public men's room in Atlanta in August", and "You have the same feel of rising panic as realizing your fly is open while lecturing to your wife's garden club."
His writing is rather humorous. He seems to have a sense of humor though I wondered at times if he got hold of some twisted thesaurus. He would describe "humidity that hung like a barber towel" and a "shriek that would curdle Bernaise sauce". The book is littered with these metaphors and similes. My favorites were within sentences of each other: "As the ammonia of his urine slaps you in the face, like a public men's room in Atlanta in August", and "You have the same feel of rising panic as realizing your fly is open while lecturing to your wife's garden club."