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Those are good books: Brian Marsh: "The Hunting Blackbeards of Botswana" (Trophy Room Books; Interesting book about a dynasty of professional hunters, lots of great Photos) Tony Sanchez-Arino: "Hunting in Botswana" (Safari Press; Compilation of hunting stories from various authors) Cronje...

For those interested in hunting books in german language (about Africa): I've put together a few interesting books in the photos below... Some are easy to get or were reprinted, some are long sold out. Some are also printed in the old gothic type, difficult to read for novices. There are many...

Hello Jäger! Yes, it's a good book by an highly experienced author! It has more stories than the first edition - enjoy it!

I read Hüttel's book - it's a good one! He was a meat hunter / PH in old Central Africa (Cameroon and Oubangui-Shari). He wrote a second book, not about hunting but about the rituals and manners of different african tribes, titled "Geheimnisvolles Afrika".

An explanation is very necessary in this case. The book above (Waidwerk der Welt) with those Nazi-portraits is a book about the biggest hunting exhibition ever held. It took place in Berlin in 1937 and was a huge success. The picture of the "Führer" seems to be in it for political reasons -...

I believe this photo is from an film by South African movie director Jamie Uys. Maybe from "Animals are beautiful people". So i suppose that nobody got hurt and the charging tusker was filmed from the safety of a truck and not shot. A very famous picture indeed, appeared on several books or...

Wow, what great opportunity you had, FWB! I also would have loved to see those trophies and talk to Gates; he must have been a friendly man. Did you take any photos of the trophy room? What i gather from your above post, Elgin Gates moved from Needles/California to Idaho, took all his trophies...

Very interesting, thank you. By the way: The huge tusks of Pedro Camps-Salvat´s elephant (158 / 159 pounds, shot in 1975 in Sudan) were sold 2015 at an Auction House in France for nearly 163.000 Euros!

Very true, Wheels. I know that many of Elgin Gates' hunts and exploits were doubted, even back then. His notorious world record Kudu, the legendary Argali hunt in Hunza and so on... The tusk-pictures in his books might have been taken some time after the hunts took place and some "field photos"...

Thank you for the update on the tusks, Wheels! I always wondered about the whereabouts of those monster-tusks... The story about this hunt is also incredible... If i remember correctly, the elephant sunk in the Nile after the shot, so Gates and his PH Blacklaws had to retrieve the tusks from...

Yes, this is Elgin Gates (second from left) in his famous trophy room in Needles, California. The other persons on this picture are the family of PH Jose Simoes from Mozambique (second from right). Gates won the Weatherby Award in 1960 and wrote two hunting books about Africa and Asia. I don´t...

Mr. Ludo Wurfbain sold Safari Press recently to "Rowman & Littlefield". You can still buy the Safari Press books from them (the trade editions). Yes, Worldwide Hunting Books is a branch of Safari Press and sells old hunting books and the remaining limited editions of SP. And Sports Afield and...

There are a great many hunting books about Europe, mine are mostly in german and very old. Books about our hunting traditions, the poachers, how to judge the age of the game and so on. I like books about hunting the Carpathian Mountains and chamois hunting in the Alps. But i suggest you try the...

Thank you Sourdough - a great book-cover! The massive 147 / 148 lb tusks must be from Mr. Gurnee Munn's elephant. Is that correct? The PH was Bill Jenvey and Mr. Munn also shot a huge leopard on that safari. If i remember correctly, Jenvey said in an interview that Mrs. Kellogg was the only...

Spot on, Hunter-Habib! Robert Ruark bought two of Karamojo Bell's rifles in the 1950s - a Jeffery .450/.400 Nitro Express and the famous .275 Rigby. Both rifles he gave it to his godson Mark Selby. Gail Selby's elephant hunt happened 50 years ago... I read the story in an old issue of African...

Unfortunately, Mr. Selby never wrote a book. Hunter-Habib is right, he wrote several Articles (for Sports Afield and other magazines). I heard that Safari Press tried to persuade Harry Selby to write his Memoirs, it never came to be. But Mr. Selby wrote a very long foreword to the sixtieth...

I see good book recommendations from all of you, thanks. Hans-Otto Meissner is also one of my favorites, he was a great writer! Born in 1909, he was the youngest German Consul in Milan and Tokyo in the 1930s third Reich. After the war Meissner became a writer and hunted all over the world. He...

Or probably this one: Burk H. Stelzner: "Guide to Safaris", 1969 The jacket is white and green, and the word "safari" on it... A swahili-dictionary also! :)

Great, thank you!

Hello Sourdough! Tricky question... Maybe one of those books will do: Robert M. Lee: "Safari Today - The modern safari handbook", 1960 William D. Holmes: "Safari RSVP", 1960 George L. Herter: "The truth about hunting in today's Africa", 1963 The Lee-book has several pages of swahili-english...

A spectacular room indeed... It is also featured in the book "Great Hunters Vol. 2" by Safari Press. The PH Fred Bartlett hunted with Dr. Caldesi and wrote about him in his biography "Shoot straight and stay alive". Caldesi shot the big rhino in the upper picture on a hunt with Bartlett in the...

Thank you, Mr. Manning! At last, someone who actually knew Capstick stands up. This picture alone should end all doubts and rumours about Peter Capstick. Impressive tusks!

Indeed! A good book - the tree-tusked elephant is very spectacular! Another PHs who wrote about Capstick (in a friendlier way): Geoff Broom in "A Life on Safari" and Gordon Cundill in "A Hunter's Africa". One thing about Capstick's books is strange: There are no typical "trophy photos" of...

Hello Zoey! The Kouprey above was shot by Henri Jouin in Cambodia 1949. I believe the trophy was auctioned some years ago for several thousand Euro. Best regards!

Capstick was a very entertaining writer, i read all his books several times. My favourites are "Death in the Long Grass", "The Last Ivory Hunter" and "Maneaters". But - in my opinion - one of his greatest achievments was that he had St. Martin's Press reprint all those classic Africana Books by...

Hello RidgeRunner! Gorillas and chimpanzees were strictly protected species since 1933. Yet, as this LIFE-Article shows, the demand for zoos and museums were high. In fact, a sport hunter / collector was able to shoot a gorilla if he could proof that the trophy was shot for "scientific...

Good stuff, rigbymauser! I'm also a admirer of Bror, he must have been a fascinating character! I also like the book by Blixen's nephew, Romulus Kleen, about Bror and the letters he wrote from the bush: the book is "African Letters" - a great read and in some parts even better than "African...

Thank you, NamStay! I have this Article in my files - it caused an public uproar, even in 1951... And "Gorilla Hunter" Bill Said died a few years later (in 1954) in an car accident in Leopoldville/Congo. Bobo, the gorilla-baby in this Article, lived for years in the Seattle Zoo and became a big...

I searched my library and came up with some more informations about van Rensburg in the following books: "Legends of the African Frontier" by David Chandler "Inside Safari Hunting with Eric Rundgren" by Dennis Holman "My Pride and Joy" by George Adamson. "Africa's Greatest Tuskers" by Tony...

F. C. Selous mentions a Commandant van Rensburg in his book "Sunshine and Storm in Rhodesia". A certain Jansen van Rensburg ist mentioned in a book by Lawrence Green: "Great North Road". All of Green's books are great fun to read, some "tall tales" i guess - lots of lore and legend and mystery...

Here are a few pictures from Lyell's books - just to show some of his rifles. The elephant is the same, only from different angles. All the best: Kouprey

Dear Kevin! Pondoro is right, for elephant hunting Lyell - like Bell and Stigand - was an advocat of smaller calibres, but only for headshots, preferably from the side. He experimented also with various calibres and actions. He writes: "I have owned and used quite forty rifles of all kinds, and...