The African Adventurers: A Return to the Silent Places
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992. Later printing. Hardcover. Fine, fresh apparently unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 244 pp. with bibliography, index. Illustrated with photos. Later printing. Peter Capstick, who has been hailed as the adventure-writing successor to Hemingway and Ruark, brings to life four turn-of-the 2oth century adventurers and the savage frontiers they braved. Here are profiled: Frederick Selous, the British hunter, naturalist and soldier, who rewrote the history books with fearless treks deep into the Dark Continent; Constantine "Iodine" Ionides, the English game ranger that saved Tanganyikan villages from man-eating lions and leopards as well as being known for an uncanny ability to capture black mambas, cobras, Gaboon vipers, and other deadly snakes; Johnny Boyes, a dashing Brit who gained chieftainship of the Kikuyu tribe with sheer bravado and survived ferocious battles and ambushes of inter-tribal warfare; and Jim Sutherland, a Scottish ex-boxer who was one of the best ivory hunters that ever lived. Fine / fine. Item #E35974
ISBN: 0312076223
Price: $22.95