Peter Hathaway Capstick

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Peter Hathaway Capstick was a famous hunter and author. Born in New Jersey in 1940 and educated at University of Virginia, he left Wall Street at the age of nearly thirty and hunted in Central and South America before going to Africa, where he held pro hunting licenses in Ethiopia, Zambia, Botswana, and Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). He spent most of his life in Africa, the land he called his "source of inspiration." Though he spent a lifetime hunting some of the most dangerous big game animals on the planet, his death never came from a lion's jaw. A chain-smoker and whisky drinker, he died after complications following heart surgery in a Pretoria hospital in 1996. The 470 capstick rifle round bears his name.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Bibliography

• A Man Called Lion
• African Adventurers: A Return To Silent Places, The
• Death in a Lonely Land
• Death in the Dark Continent
• Death in the Long Grass
• Death in the Silent Places
• Last Ivory Hunter, The
• Last Horizons
• Peter Capstick's Africa : A Return To The Long Grass
• Sands of Silence
• Safari: the Last Adventure
• Warrior: the Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen

[edit] References

Capstick, Peter (1990). Death In A Lonely Land. New York: St. Martin's Press. ISBN 0-312-03810-0.