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by Peter Hathaway Capstick
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1989
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1989
Critically acclaimed as a master of adventure writing for Death in the Long Grass and Death in the Silent Places, former professional hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick takes us back to Africa to encounter the world’s most dangerous big-game animals.
After consulting African game experts and...
Last Horizons
Hunting, Fishing & Shooting On Five Continents
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1988
Peter Hathaway Capstick first earned a name as an outdoor writer in the pages of such magazines as Guns & Ammo, Petersen’s Hunting, The American Hunter, and Outdoor Life. In Last Horizons, the first of a two-volume collection of his hunting, fishing, and shooting tales, Capstick shares twenty-four...
When Things Get Dark
A Mongolian Winter's Tale
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2010
At 23, Matt Davis moved to a remote Mongolian town to teach English.What he found when he arrived was a town—and a country—undergoing wholesale change from a traditional, countryside existence to a more urban, modern identity. When Things Get Dark documents these changes through the Mongolians...
Plane Insanity
A Flight Attendant's Tales of Sex, Rage, and Queasiness at 30,000 Feet
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
You're belted into a middle seat with burly businessmen on either side. It's 92 degrees in the cabin and someone forgot to use deodorant. A baby screams. A kid kicks the back of your seat. After two hours you haven't even left the taxiway. Welcome to modern airline travel! In Plane Insanity, Elliott...
The Heartless Stone
A Journey Through the World of Diamonds, Deceit, and Desire
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2007
In 2000, Tom Zoellner purchased a diamond engagement ring and proposed. His girlfriend said, "yes" and then, suddenly, walked out of his life making Tom the owner of a used engagement ring. Instead of hitting the self-help shelves of his local bookstore, he hit the road travelling to diamond...
Safari
The Last Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 1984
From the master of African adventure writing, Peter Hathway Capstick presents the first modern authoritative, comprehensive travel guide to African safari.
Drawn from his years of experience as a professional hunter, Capstick’s Safari: The Last Adventure explains the preparations and procedures...
The African Adventurers
A Return to the Silent Places
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1992
Hailed as the adventure-writing successor to Hemingway and Ruark, only Peter Hathaway Capstick “can write action as cleanly and suspensefully as the best of his predecessors’ (Sports Illustrated). This long-awaited sequel to Death in the Silent Places brings to life four turn-of-the-century adventurers...
Bears in the Streets
Three Journeys across a Changing Russia
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
**One of Bustle's 17 of the Best Nonfiction Books Coming in January 2017 and Men's Journal's 7 Best Books of January**
"Brilliant, real and readable." —former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright
**A USA Today "New and Noteworthy" Book**
Lisa Dickey...
The Honey Trail
In Pursuit of Liquid Gold and Vanishing Bees
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
A unique look at the history, culture, tradition, and environmental impact of honey
The Honey Trail is a global travel narrative that looks at different aspects of how honey and bees are being affected by globalization, terrorism, deforestation, the global food trade, and climate change. This...
The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago
The Complete Cultural Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2000
The road across northern Spain to Santiago de Compostela in the northwest was one of the three major Christian pilgrimage routes during the Middle Ages, leading pilgrims to the resting place of the Apostle St. James. Today, the system of trails and roads that made up the old pilgrimage route is the...
Counter Intelligence
Where to Eat in the Real Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Jonathan Gold has eaten it all. Counter Intelligence collects over 200 of Gold's best restaurant discoveries--from inexpensive lunch counters you won't find on your own to the perfect undiscovered dish at a beaten-path establishment. He reveals the hidden kitchens where Los Angeles' ethnic communities...
Frost on my Moustache
The Arctic Exploits of a Lord and a Loafer
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2013
Guided by the fastidious journals of an eminent Victorian adventurer by the name of Lord Dufferin, Time Moore sets off to prove his mettle in the most stunningly inhospitable place on Earth-the Arctic. Armed only with his searing wit, wicked humor, and seasickness pills, our pale suburbanite-wracked...
I'm Fascinated by Sacrifice Flies
Inside the Game We All Love
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
The New York Times Bestseller!
In the aftermath of the Steroid Era that stained the game of baseball, at a time when so many players are so rich and therefore have a sense of entitlement that they haven't earned, ESPN baseball commentator Tim Kurkjian shows readers how to love the game more...
Sugar Daddy
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Lisa Kleypas has enthralled millions of readers with her powerfully seductive novels. Now she delivers a story featuring her most unforgettable characters yet....in Sugar Daddy
SHE'S FROM THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS
Liberty Jones has dreams and determination that will take her far away from...