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wbyman
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What is your favorite African hunting book ?
      #58171 - 02/06/06 09:57 AM

I would like to add a few African hunting and / or exploration books to my collection and just wanted to get some ideas.

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Joe

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: wbyman]
      #58174 - 02/06/06 10:45 AM

All of the Capstick books.
All of the Ruark books.
All Taylor books.
I really enjoyed Osa Johnson "I Married Adventure"
Boddington's Africa books
You must read Hemmingway- African Game Trails

To select only one would be most difficult but The one I have re-read more that 3 or 4 times would be Death in the Silent Places.
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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: wbyman]
      #58175 - 02/06/06 10:52 AM

Cornwallis Harris. Wild Sports of South Africa 1st, 3rd, & 5th editions of the 1839 classic are an absolute treasure.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: ]
      #58178 - 02/06/06 11:21 AM


Any of John Hunters books are great but Hunter is by far the best!

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: Judson]
      #58179 - 02/06/06 11:44 AM

Hunting and Fishing From A-Zern.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: luv2safari]
      #58180 - 02/06/06 12:07 PM

Jungle Man- Pretorius.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: wbyman]
      #58187 - 02/06/06 02:46 PM

African Hunter - James Mellon
African Hunter II - compiled by Boddington and Flack
Trophy Hunter in Africa - Elgin Gates
Into Africa (the search for Livingstone)
Safari - Bartle Bull
Spiral Horn Dreams - Terry Wieland
From Mount Kenya to the Cape - Boddington

Any of Robert Ruark's books, but most certainly "Horn of the Hunter" and "Use Enough Gun".

Green Hills of Africa - Hemingway

Any of John Hunter's books
Any of WDM Bell's books

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: DPhillips]
      #58220 - 03/06/06 02:39 AM

Many many books but two not often mentioned I enjoyed very much were Harry Manners "Kambaku" and John Dawkin's "Rogues and Marauders".

John Dawkins was an Australian who hunted ivory for profit and hunted also with his friend John Taylor in Taylor's latter years. Taylor proof read Dawkin's book and also visited him and stayed with Dawkins more than once at his home and property in the South East of South Australia. Alas he died recently after an accident with a pheasant breeding incubator.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: NitroX]
      #58222 - 03/06/06 04:16 AM

Fredrick Russell Burham, Scouting on Two Continents.

Although I still have a problem accepting the book as nonfiction. Does anyone else?

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: wbyman]
      #58231 - 03/06/06 10:27 AM

Hunting the Elephant in Africa by C.H. Stigand
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo by Patterson.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: DoubleD]
      #58232 - 03/06/06 11:25 AM

Double D

It is an amazing story. I found it a bit fantastic also until I read a history of the Matabele Wars where both Rhodes and Baden-Powell referenced his contributions.

Wilbur Smith used his actions for part of the basis of one of his characters.

His second book 'Taking Chances' is also intriguing.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: mickey]
      #58236 - 03/06/06 12:39 PM

Marrakai,

I also really enjoyed Jungle Man.... Great book!

My other favorites would have to be

"Hunter"

Suterland's "Adventures of an Elephant Hunter"

"Bell of Africa"

"Horn of the Hunter"

"Death in the Long Grss"

"Stigand's "Hunting the Elephant in Africa"

"Gorilla Hunter" by Merfield

And many more....


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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: mickey]
      #58242 - 03/06/06 03:27 PM

Actually I found Burnhams African adventures to fit what a lot of others reported of the era.

It's his American adventures that didn't seem right. I don't know if it was semantics, but the timelines seemed awfully compressed.



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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: DoubleD]
      #58262 - 04/06/06 03:35 AM

I'm surprised no one has suggested this, but I'm new here. But after reading everything I could get my hands on as a kid and a younger man from Hemmingway to Roark to Boddington. The one that puts a warm smile on my face is the impromtu dairy I kept about daily activities on my first trip there some time back. It reminds me of the wide eyed innocence and excitement that had possesed me because much to my disbelief I had finally got take the trip there. But then again thats just me.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: yellowhammer]
      #58444 - 07/06/06 01:59 PM

Two technical books I like are:

Ballistics in Perspective by Mike LaGrange

The Perfect Shot by Kevin Robertson

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: wbyman]
      #58693 - 13/06/06 12:13 AM

Kevin Robertson has a new book, specifically on buffalo, coming out in the fall called "Africa's Most Dangerous". That will be my favorite.

My current favorites are "The Perfect Shot", and African Hunter II.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: wbyman]
      #59363 - 28/06/06 04:37 AM

I am new to this site but dare to say that " A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa " by F.C.Selous is a great classic I have read a couple of times with delight. Being a buffalo hunter, " Nyati" by Kevin Robertson is also worth reading several times as well as his other books.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: Kalunga]
      #59373 - 28/06/06 09:25 AM

In my mind, we need to separate the information books (like Mellon's masterpiece) from the books written that make you want to jump on the next plane.

Capstick's books are pure entertainment. But leave it at that.

Ruark was a great writer, but if you get al of his other books, leave "Use Enough Gun" alone. It is merely a compilation of passages from his other books.

Corbett's books are great, but none of us will hunt tigers in India in our lifetimes.

Hunter is outstanding. And I believe Hunter was the guy Ruark epitomized as the ultimate hunter in his novels.

Tedd Roosevelt and Sir Edmund Pease will give you a good flavor of turn of the ctury Africa.

I have Selous lined up to read.

And to the new guy, we would love to read your remembrances - it fills the nostrils of those of us that have been there with the memories of the reasons we want to return, and for those of us that have not been there, fuels the passion for a primative urge we cannot explain.

Oh, and another outstanding book was Patterson's "Man eaters of Tsavo", although I must say the movie was better than the book.

I also have Bell's elephant book in the wings. And have read Elmer Keith's Safari - good read, but no expert on Africa.



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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: Grizzly]
      #172203 - 28/11/10 08:59 AM

Foran's "Elephant Hunters of the Lado"

Bell's "A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa"

Boddington's "Buffalo!"

Taylor's "Maneaters and Marauders" and "African Rifles and Cartridges"

I'm looking forward to reading John Dawkin's book, a copy of which I have managed to track down.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: Ben]
      #172236 - 28/11/10 10:35 PM

I still enjoy "A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa" by Selous

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: Ben]
      #172246 - 29/11/10 01:46 AM

Quote:

I'm looking forward to reading John Dawkin's book, a copy of which I have managed to track down.



John Dawkin's book is excellent and interesting as he was an Aussie "ivory hunter".

He lived in the SE of South Australia and sadly died only a few years ago.

I managed to get a copy of his book only after his death, and found out from other hunters that he was a very approachable and friendly guy, so missed out on chatting with him.

He was a friend of John Taylor, whom reportedly wrote one of his African books while staying at JD's property.

A good read. Since then I have managed to get a first edition of his book, which is out of print, and can sometime be hard to obtain at a reasonable price. It would be great if permission from the copyright holder could be obtained to put up the book as an online book here on NE.

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Some of the books, such as WDM Bell's "Wandering .." books are now also available as audio books which makes a pleasant way to enjoy them when driving, working or whatever.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: NitroX]
      #172254 - 29/11/10 02:01 AM


Boddingtons " African Hunter II"
Tony Sanchez-Arino on Ethiopia & Sudan
All J. A Hunters books
Alfred Pease " Book of the lion"
Alexander lakes books

That was just a few in my +600 book collection

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: rigbymauser]
      #172257 - 29/11/10 02:32 AM

Buckley, 'Big Game Hunting in Central Africa'
Manners, 'Kambaku'
Selous, 'A Hunters Wanderings . .'
modern, Ron Thomson, 'Mahoboh'
Sanchez-Arino, 'Elephants and Elephant Hunters'
Eduard Foa, 'after big game in central africa'

Edited by rscott (29/11/10 03:32 AM)

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: rscott]
      #172262 - 29/11/10 03:12 AM

Wild Beasts and their Ways - Sir Samuel Baker.

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Re: What is your favorite African hunting book ? [Re: Oldbrit]
      #174807 - 04/02/11 09:05 AM

The one that started it all for me was Capsticks Death in the Long Grass. High school library 11th grade. I have read about everything now, but that one is still a sentimental favorite!

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