<div>Following the smashing success of <i>Last Horizons</i> (SMP, 1989), Peter Capstick now presents a second volume of pieces culled from such magazines as <i>Outdoor Life</i>, NRA's <i>American Hunter</i>, <i>Guns & Ammo</i>, and <i>Petersen's Hunting</i>. The articles showcase a literary style that prompted <i>Kirkus Reviews</i> to say of <i>Last Horizons</i>, "No one since Hemingway (with the possible exception of Ruark) has written on these subjects with such literary gusto."<br><br>The stockbroker-turned-outdoorsman recalls his days as an African pro hunter in "The Killer Baboons of Vlackfontein." "Four Fangs in a Treetop" records a foray into British Honduras for the jaguar, "a gold-dappled teardrop of motion." Capstick narrowly escapes the Yellow Beard, Central America's deadly tree-climbing snake, and cows "The Black Death (Cape buffalo) in the kind of article that makes this author "the guru of American hunting fans" (<i>New York Newsday</i>). On Brazil's forsaken Marajo Island, he bags the pugnacious red buffalo, which has the "temperament of a constipated Sumo wrestler and the tenacity of an IRS man."<br><br>The author discusses 12- and 20-gauge shotgun loads; recalls the pleasures of "biltong" (African beef jerky); describes the irresistible homemade lures of snook fishing expert John Gorbatch; and kills a genteel take of Atlantic salmon with the brilliantly simple tube fly.<br><br>Over thirty gorgeous drawings by famous wildlife artist Dino Paravano make this volume yet another collector's item by a writer who "keeps the tradition of great safari adventure alive in each of his books" (<i>African Expedition Gazette</i>).<br><br>Peter Capstick's eight prior titles include <i>The Last Ivory Hunter</i> (SMP, 1988); <i>Peter Capstick's Africa</i> (SMP, 1987); and <i>Death in the Long Grass</i> (SMP, 1978).<br></div>