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Originally posted by Anjin:

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Originally posted by China Fleet Sailor:

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Originally posted by Michael Robinson:
Capstick wasn't a liar. He just had a common and in his case likable tendency toward exaggeration.

I wouldn't call Capstick a liar, either.

I strongly suspect that as someone making his living as a writer, he had an writer's need to recycle the same event time and again to keep momma in beans and jeans.

One trip to Belize becomes 10 stories, each with man-eating hammerheads, charging jaguars, and death-dealing poisonous snakes.

Quite right. As this thread brings out, Capstick had an incredible flair for dramatizing and bringing out the sheer adventure of his subjects. We all know that some of the stories were "borrowed" too, but so what. He was an artist at it.

He was just that.

I've never gotten a good answer to this question.

So let me ask again.

Would the Capstick detractors have preferred that some really good stories had been lost to the world when the tellers of the tale died?

Because that's what would have happened.

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Madmark,

Buy the lot!

You will eventually after reading Death In The Long Grass.

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I agree, I have them all plus the ones his wife wrote later.

Even have a few Peter signed for me just before he passed away.

I started looking at this thread, and am amazed that all of the Capstick detractors have not crawled out of thew wood work.

Two facts in my case at least, are that 1, PHC inspired me to want to go to Africa to hunt, which I will never be able to do, and secondly, many small people want to find reasons to cut down those among us that reach out and grab the brass ring and don't live life to other peoples standards.

Regardless of what some may think, the hunting world lost a great friend/ambassador when PHC passed away.

What Crazy Horse said, plus 1!

If PHC's estate had a dollar for each person who got the African hunting bug from reading his books, that woman would be a bazillionaire!

I have all of them I think, and I read them whenever the road back to Africa seems a bit long, and cloudy up ahead.

The safari business owes more to PHC than any other one person alive or dead...

Rich

Might as well buy the lot, as I did & read the lot entirely 2 or 3 times. PHC is my all time favorite author, hands down, no one comes close.