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The book was highlighted across multiple episodes as a standout hunting novel, with Spencer Neuharth calling it a "great book" and noting it was the author's first work. Remi Warren recalled reading it repeatedly as a child and praised its opening passage as perhaps the best explanation of why people hunt. Ben O'Brien described it as essential reading for anyone interested in African hunting and adventure writing, even saving it for a flight to Africa. The overall sentiment was strongly positive, recommending it to listeners.
Episode: Ep. 443: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia LXI
This hunting novel was the subject of a trivia question; one contestant recalled having it on their bookshelf. It was described as a "great book".
Who is the author of the hunting novel Death in the Long Grass?
Great book.
That was Capstick's first book.
Episode: Ep. 443: Game On, Suckers! MeatEater Trivia LXI
It was described as a great hunting novel. The question of its authorship proved challenging for the contestants, highlighting the book's relative obscurity to some participants.
Who is the author of the hunting novel Death in the Long Grass?
You should add that to the MeatEater book club reading list.
The correct answer is Peter Capstick.
That was Capstick's first book before he became a professional hunter in Africa. He worked as a stockbroker on Wall Street.
Episode: Ep. 157: Bottle to Throttle
Considered to have one of the best descriptions of why people hunt, the book explores hunting as a cultural practice and human evolution. Despite some potentially controversial elements by today's standards, its depiction of hunting's significance was highly valued.
But as a kid I probably read this book more than any other book. Like every book report I did was on death in the long grass.
But the first portion of that book is possibly the best description of why people hunt that I've ever read.
Episode: Ep. 060: Guyana. Steven Rinella talks with Makushi...
The podcast corrected an earlier statement, attributing this book to the wrong author; it was written by Peter Kapstik, not Robert Roo-Ark as initially believed.
If we had an internet connection, I'd tell you who did write it, but he told me that that's not who wrote Death in the Tall Grass. No, it's Peter Kapstik.
Episode: Ep. 056: Las Vegas, NV. Steven Rinella takes a bre...
It was described as an essential read for those interested in African hunting and adventure writing, and was saved by the speaker to read on a plane to Africa.
He's the essential, to me, the essential writer for African hunting and really adventure, at least in Africa, the adventure writing.
Yeah, Death in the Tall Grass. He's the essential, to me, the essential writer for African hunting and really adventure, at least in Africa, the adventure writing. You can name how many books he's written that are seminal to that.
And so before I went to Africa to go hunting, the first, I saved Robert Ruark's books, Death in the Tall Grass and Father and Son and all those books until I was going to Africa to read on the plane.