DEATH IN A LONELY LAND: MORE HUNTING, FISHING AND SHOOTING ON FIVE CONTINENTS. By Peter Hathaway Capstick.

(1990) recent reprint. 8vo (160 x 242mm). Ppxx,284. B/w illustrations by Dino Paravano. Grey-green cloth, spine titled in gilt. Although issued by the publisher, this is a "digital short-run" reprint and the quality of the print and materials is inferior to previous printings.

The second volume of Capstick's tales culled from American sporting magazines. Chapters include; Roll back the years!; The mini menacer; The killer baboons of Vlackfontein; Goofs that cost game; Fill that tag; Four fangs in a treetop; Pigsticking made personal; Southern fried buffalo; Midnight date with a black jaguar; The happy snooker; The deadly new tube fly [fishing in Iceland]; Anything the 20-gauge can do, the 12 can do better; Shotgun pellets - is bigger better?; Airboating for Florida quackers; Oldies are goodies; A lapful of leopard; Arthur Neumann's overdose of elephant; Berry Brooks - America's greatest big game hunter; The Black Death; Return of the man-eaters; Biltong; Videos in the long grass; Gunpowder cocktails?