Reddit reviews Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush
We found 5 Reddit comments about Death in the Long Grass: A Big Game Hunter's Adventures in the African Bush. Here are the top ones, ranked by their Reddit score.
St Martin s Press
This was originally a book. My uncle forced me to read the book before he let me watch the movie. Well worth it.
https://www.amazon.com/Death-Long-Grass-Hunters-Adventures/dp/0312186134
Well, it was from their view as a "professional hunter" in africa. See, they'd take these rich white guys to places to hunt these dangerous things. Then when the noob makes a bad shot and wounds the animal, it's the Pro hunter's responsibility to track down that wounded animal and finish it. Leopards were known for NOT charging when wounded. They hid and ambushed them. 80 lbs of unnaturally strong leopard jumping on you from 4 feet. Patient, angry, hiding. Stood my hairs up. You should give em a read!
Here I'll link a couple
http://www.amazon.com/Death-Long-Grass-Hunters-Adventures/dp/0312186134
http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Short-Stories-Ernest-Hemingway/dp/0684843323/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1377466847&sr=1-4
Everything by Hemingway is awesome. Capstick was a helluva writer, but there's some saying he wasn't a really good hunter.
Death in the Long Grass
African Game Trails
anyone ever read any Peter Capstick? Made me really appreciate what goes into hunting and the connection between hunters and conservationists: http://www.amazon.com/Death-Long-Grass-Hunters-Adventures/dp/0312186134/ref=la_B000AQ4R4E_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1404298743&sr=1-1
Also scary as shit! The comments on the huffpost article are talking about how this is unsportsmanlike because "you have a gun" but that doesn't always do much good if you can't hit the vitals of a charging buffalo in the split-second you have before you're crushed to death. Even with guards it's hard to make things really safe. She's not shooting sleeping bunny wabbits in their burrows. Add to that the fact that the woman in these pictures seems to be hunting with a bow and arrow. Unless she's shooting shit from a helicopter, in which case I agree with all the hate (see: Norman Mailer's "Why are we in Vietnam?").
Great book: Death in the Long Grass goes on and on about all the cool animals in Africa... and how they kill people.