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Lovely to hear of Peter Capstick again, remembering our wonderful days together in 1969 at Nyampala, my safari camp in the Luangwa Valley, where he started in Africa. By coincidence, I had just begun re-reading my unpublished novel 'Digby of Africa' - based at Nyampala - in which I mentioned the...

Bwana Hunting Hitman, Happy Myles & ThumbsUp, Thank you all for your kind appreciation of a bit of hunting history of Northern Rhodesia and Zambia. I knew and worked with some wonderful people in much of Africa from the early 1960s up until my last safari as a PH in 2005. Yes, Happy Myles, I...

A short Zambia hunting history 1 Ivory hunters By 1870 the slave export trade, allied with the ivory trade and paid for in firearms and calico, massively reduced the elephant population in Africa. For example, in the Zambezi and Luangwa valleys, one of the Zambezi muzungu (mixed race)...

J.E, Hughes operated hunting safaris in the S.E. Bangweulu in Northern Rhodesia from 1911-1919. He then gave it all up, moving to Port Elizabeth for good. The rhino was shot near the Luambatwa River at its source, not far from the Luangwa Escarpment. The last rhino were killed there in 1973 (and...

Hello! Last their physically 7 June 2008; otherwise always there while the candle burns.

The discomfort affects some of those who are involved with hunting safaris, or - like me - who have been involved in both hunting and conservation management and research there on and off from 1966 to 2008, and who understand the importance of securing a value for wildlife and wild country that...

Will do VertigoBE

cbvanb, Thanks for your note. Glad you found a copy of the hard-copy first edition. The second edition is out on ebook and PDF, and am in the throes of getting set up for hard copy as well. My two-volume book, God's Country, covers the personal and political side of hunting in several African...

Pheroze, I doubt that Zambia and Uganda's debt to China is expanding the latter's military footprint. For an excellent analysis of the Zambian situation read what chinastrategy.org had to say on 29 October 2021 in their article: "WHAT ZAMBIA'S NEW DEBT REVEAL TELLS US ABOUT THE 'CHINA DEBT...

I recommend Internet Archive for downloading free pdf copies of books published before1926, and the borrowing of post-1926 pdf books for an hour - or to two weeks in some cases. I have downloaded in excess of 50 exploration and hunting books on Africa. But one classic hunting book, Eighteen...

I managed to access Peter Capstick's Death in the Long Grass on Internet Archive (many classic hunting books published prior to 1926 can be downloaded there, and those after 1926, borrowed.) Here is what he wrote about the hippo charge.

Thank you, Red Leg and One Day, for your kind comments. The Second edition is out in pdf and Epub 3. And happy reading Mark O. Faga Moto! Ian

Spoonieduck, In my book, With a Gun in Good Country, I recorded the following after Peter assisted me with a hunt at my Nyampala camp in August 1969. ...he was keen, a mature individual who did not pretend with me that he was the next Selous, though he loved the aura of the White Hunter. We had...

Peter is on the bottom right of the photo. Elephant tusks.

Peter did his first season with me in the Luangwa Valley of Zambia as a fully licenced professional hunter in 1969. Norman Carr of Luangwa Safaris had hired him at a meeting in New York, knowing that Peter's big-game experience centred only on the Jaguar. It was a good decision. He was a quick...

Hello Katie. Do write. I recently produced a free book, Guardians of Eden Manual, which you will be interested in; it is about what is needed in Zambia to save the chiefdoms where all the hunting is done. I will shortly post a crowdfunding effort to fund printed copies and ship them to the 288...

The Zambia section needs a total re-write. I suggest contact is made with the Professional Hunters' Association of Zambia, the Wildlife Producers Association of Zambia, and the Department of National Parks and Wildlife.

Good to hear. Books are on the hunting list.

Field & Stream Magazine, New York, 1996. Safari Bookshelf (Safari Times Africa, January 2001) Magnum Magazine, South Africa. 1995. The African Hunter Magazine The book is in EPUB and is easily downloaded, just make sure you also download the free...

Bwana, It is a great pleasure.

Len Vaughan White Hunter, Game Warden, Northern Rhodesia Len Vaughan, who conducted hunting safaris in Northern Rhodesia in the 1920s when the country was under the control of Cecil Rhodes's British South Africa Chartered Company, is someone to note and remember. He later owned what is now...

Hello Katie, My friend and your grandfather bought my book With a Gun in Good Country (limited edition of 1000) back in 1995 for $85. If you still have it place an ad on Abebooks.com after having a look at other copies for sale. They fetch very good prices: today- @100 - $165. Do the same with...

1300 elephant, 2044 buffalo and 332 lion - as a PH? This is simply not possible. Monish does it again. I know Tony quite well. He hunted with Luangwa Safaris in Zambia for a few years in the 60s, always nice to visit with his ebullient Spanish clients who had a jolly time. He was a relaxed...

In 1972 the cropping scheme closed down having accounted for 1408 elephant, 1643 hippo, 212 buffalo and a number of impala for rations. In 1975 there were in excess of 350,000 elephant in the country; in 1981 reduced to 180,000; in 2013, 25,000.

The PH may have been Bob Langeveld. In 1967 when I was the Senior Cropping Ranger in the Zambian Department of Game & Fisheries cropping scheme based at Kakumbi on the border of the South Luangwa Game Reserve, Bob Langeveld was employed as a fencing constructor by my friend Bill Astle, the...

I heard from Viva, who asks," Who is the toto from Chimala? I wonder. ...say Jumbo..." Of Eric's books, she says, "Safari Press in California printed two books by Eric "On Safari with Bwana Game ''and "More Safaris with Bwana Game ".The first one - of two publications - is out of print. Of...

Sorry, don't remember.

David Ommanney (d.2001) and his wife Dilys (d.2014) were good friends of Cathlin and me. Lovely people. As David and I moved about a lot, we kept up a lively letter correspondence. We had met when he managed Chibote Safaris in Lusaka. One of his sons, also David Ommanney, lives in Denmark. We...

My blog http://zambiasafarihunting.blogspot.com carries much information on the prevailing situation in Zambia in the years 2003-2008.

I must admonish the person who raided one of my blog sites, captured a story, and did not acknowledge the author. But worse, inserted a foreign photograph. I write about Melland and the amazing Chumamaboko (arms of iron) in Where the Water Meets the Sky and in God's Country: Vol I - Plunderers...

Through the Heart of Africa by Melland and Cholmeley can be downloaded here at Archive.org

I have a chapter on F.H. Melland in my book Where the Water Meets the Sky. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Melland (Chumamaboko behind him) and the 116 pounder (pic provided by Amicia Melland) Melland was a nephew of Prime Minister...

The full review was by Brooke Chilvers.

Wheels, Good to hear of your connection with Eric. When I came on Eric's bio I went in search of his unpublished book, contacting Viva. She ran it to ground and then sent it to me. That was four years ago! I will now write to her and let her know the process has started. I will then report back.

L-R: Ron Kidson, Kerry Curtis, Eric Balson, Ian Manning. Africa Safari Day, Kloof, Natal 1985. Here is Eric in 1985 at Cathlin's and my home in Kloof with great friend Ron Kidson - founder of Zambia Safaris (now 92 and living near Kloof); Kerry Curtis - a Zambia Safari shareholder; Eric; and...

Of course, it was Allistair, had to call in Memsahib Cathlin to confirm. You mentioned his father; do you have more on him?

So glad you enjoyed With a Gun, the second edition is now out. I added a chapter on Congo, Odzala where I brought in hunting to the EU project area, and one on the Lambs of Cashel.

Well, Happy, will have to dig into the croc mauling and buffalo vigil incident. I rarely saw Allistair, but Rory visited me regularly on his way to town in 2004-2007. Yes, Tony and I did the last black rhino hunt in '79. In '87'88 I tried to save the last 100 or so and failed.

Peter had only just returned from self-imposed exile in Kenya working in photo-tourism, was not on safari with clients, and had not guided clients for some years. It was his staff who did nothing. Peter had no rifle that night as he had been away and was too late to collect it from the store...

I knew Rory well. His escape from a croc mauling in the Zambezi, and then lying seriously wound on the bank, with a bull buffalo standing on guard a short distance away throughout the night until he was able to call a passing boat, is something to remember.

The contribution of American hunters to Africa has been immense. Theodore Roosevelt certainly set it all in motion. Whom did you hunt with all those years ago in Zambia? Larry Wilson hunted with me in 1970 in the Luangwa; the result of his need to research his Roosevelt biography.

Wyatt, we actually never completed the hunt, the buff running in circles and our tracker and gunbearer looked on amazed.

I see that you have hunted in many places. Apart from the hunting, it would be interesting to have your comments on just how much - or little - the indigenous people benefitted. Hunting safaris are potentially of massive importance to the preservation of customary areas and their wildlife. Did...

Peter was friendly from the start. In 1969 Norman Carr of Luangwa Safaris met him in New York and hired him as an assistant PH. He came to assist me in Chief Nabwalya's country in the Luangwa Valley. It was the first time for many years that it was hunted. Peter was a big-cat hunter, South...

HUNTING ZAMBIA UPDATE The Zambia section needs to be updated from the 2008 report, e.g. ZAWA (the Zambia Wildlife Authority) was replaced in 2015 by the Department of National Parks and Wildlife; and the population of humans is now 18 million - up from 11.7 million. Here follows some important...

The elephant was shot on the Luitikila River west of the Great North Road in what is now called Zambia. I have a picture of the tusks with Melland and Chuma. Amicia Young (nee Melland), daughter of Frank, was a friend of mine. Let me know if it was her...by PM.

I wrote this piece on Chumamaboko - this should have been acknowledged! But I was not responsible for including a pic of Chuma (if that is him?) with a "Jackson's hartebeest". This should read Lichtenstein's hartebeest - certainly now.