The African Adventurers
A Return to the Silent Places
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June 15, 1992
Author of Death in the Silent Places and other books about big-game hunting, Capstick here profiles four British expatriates, all legendary figures in colonial Africa. Frederick Selous, a friend of Cecil Rhodes, hunted elephants in the 1870s. Constantine ``Iodine'' Ionides was a soldier, game ranger and professional safari leader in the 1920s and '30s who collected poisonous snakes for museums. Early in this century, ivory trader Johnny Boyes managed to subdue warring Kikuyu tribesmen, only to be arrested by the colonial government. At about the same time, Jim Sutherland was probably the most successful ivory hunter of all time; he also used his tracking skills to kill man-eating lions. All of these men brushed with death repeatedly, and Capstick gives the full details. He has a fund of macho stories that would fill Hemingway with envy. Big-game hunters and Old Africa hands will appreciate this re-creation of a vanished Africa.
June 15, 1992
In addition to producing videos on African hunting, writing books about African hunting and hunters (most recently his Sand of Silence: On Safari in Namibia, LJ 9/15/91), and editing reprints of classic African accounts of hunters and explorers, Capstick himself is an experienced hunter and student of African history and lore. All of these talents come to bear in these biographies of four white hunters famous for their exploits in the African interior early this century: Frederick Selous, naturalist, soldier, and elephant hunter; C.J.P. Ionides, game ranger and hunter of man-eating lions and deadly snakes; John Boyes, who became a "King" of the Kikuyus; and James Sutherland, skilled tracker and ivory hunter. Capstick uses the hunters' own writings while adding his color, commentary, and humor plus filling in details from other sources, vividly bringing to life an era and characters unlikely to return. For YA and adult collections at public libraries.--Roland Person, Southern Illinois Univ. Lib., Carbondale
Copyright 1992 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.
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