He was a great writer and I enjoy his work.
For what it is worth, I hunted out of one of his old camps on the Luangwa River in Zambia. The locals there knew him and said he was a bartender, not a professional hunter. They said he picked up the materials for his stories while tending bar. Whatever the source, he was did some good stories.
Speaking of fabrecation, the above quote is a complete fabrication! P. Capstick never had a camp in Zambia on the Luangwa River. His camps were on the Mupamadzi river, where his home was also while he was hunting in Zambia.
He was a bartender when he first arrived in Africa, but that was in Maun Botswana where he made all his contacts to get into the wildlife department as a cropping officer, and later went to work for Kurr and Downey as an appie PH. Was licensed as PH appie in Zambia in 1967, and as a PH in 1968 on his Zambia work permit. You must remember there was a bush war raging in that part of the world in the early to mid 1960s, so hunting in those places was a little dangerous, and not from lions and buffalo only. Then worked with Zambia as a cropping officer as well. So the "LOCALS" who knew him as a bar tender must have all moved 2000 miles away to the Luangwa Valley, by the time "YOU" arrived there!
Idahobob what was the concession you hunted in Zambia again?..........................................
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