Any book recommendations

[Sideshow]

I’d grab Buzz Charlton and John Sharp’s books. Well written great reads by guys who have been there. Ruark and Hemingway were great writers, but let’s be honest, their knowledge of Africa and African hunting was pretty limited in comparison to men like Buzz and John. A good friend, Bruce VanBuskirk, wrote a book, ‘The Last Safari’ after a year working in Zim. It is an excellent read if you can find it.

Just reread this for a fourth time. Bruce wrote well telling his story of the season that he spent in Zim. His description of the hunting the living conditions and his experiences are well written.
@WAB Let your good friend know that I thoroughly enjoyed his book and hope that he’s made it back for another Safari.

 

[crossfire3006]

Just finished reading "Death in the Long Grass" by Peter Hathaway Capstick again for the third time.

 

[Sideshow]

Just about to start this

 

[dgr416]

Teddy Roosevelts African Game Trails is awessome the best safari ever !

 

[steve white]

African Twilight, by Robt F Jones is a sleeper, well written
I Killed For a Living, by Oggeri is a unique book about the game fields of Viet Nam WHEN THEY EQUALED AFRICA!!
Tales of the African Frontier, by Hunter & Mannix is a very interesting read, first water stuff

 

[steve white]

SAFARI...A Chronicle of Adventure. By Bartle Bull. A 380 page history of the Safari in India and Africa.

This book is well chronicled/written by a man who no longer wants to shoot anything. His liberal ideas poisoned his part in the movie, In The Blood.

 

[Sideshow]

Really enjoying this.

 

[MS 9x56]

Teddy Roosevelts African Game Trails is awessome the best safari ever !

I found my copy at a public library book sale.

 

[WAB]

Just reread this for a fourth time. Bruce wrote well telling his story of the season that he spent in Zim. His description of the hunting the living conditions and his experiences are well written.
@WAB Let your good friend know that I thoroughly enjoyed his book and hope that he’s made it back for another Safari.

He’s @cbvanb on here if you want to drop him a line, and yes, it is one of the better written books on Africa I’ve come across. He did get back to Africa and had more adventure than anyone looks for. I believe my hunt report was titled Bliksem.

 

[mark-hunter]

So now that I've officially graduated from college, I'm looking for more hunting books to read in between finding a job. I've already read "White Hunters: The Golden Age of African Safaris" twice and it's still my go to the audiobook for walking around town. I also like to read "Death in the Long Grass" which I adore for Capstick's knack of writing. So I was wondering if there were any other truly great books out there I could get from Amazon or the local library. I'd especially like audiobooks since I can listen to them while doing other stuff.

The best book about safari I read is "Horn of the hunter" by Ruark. My second best is "Green Hills of Africa" by Hemingway.

The rest depends on what you look for, Historical and Romantic safari books, or modern descritipn of safari, or safari rifles ballisitcs.

Here are some:
"Dangerous game rifles", Terry Wielend
"Safari Rifles II", Craig Boddington.
"African Rifles and Cartiridges", By John Pondoro Taylor.
"The Perfect Shot II: A Complete Revision of the Shot Placement for African Big Game", Dr Kevin Robertson

Up to this point two most quoted authors in modern literature are Taylor and Ruark.
They are MUST READ for future safari hunter.

Almost every modern author qoutes Ruarks famous "Buffalo looks at you like you own him the money".

And the other most quoted on guns and cartridges is Taylor.
Taylor killed 1000 elephants or more, and unaccountable thousands of other animals, and buffalo.
Amount of animals that is unachievable by any modern author, especially on Big 5 group of animals.

So, modern authors experience is modest compared to famous hunters in history, and when making a point on some cartridge, from which they managed few shots - they draw the quotes from well written Taylors book.

Other literature:

"Buffalo I", and "Buffalo II" by Boddington (modern safari)

"Safari Experience" by Boddington (modern safari)

"Elephant", by Boddington (modern safari)

"Wanderings of elephant hunter" WDM Bell (historic book)

"On the African game Trails", by Theodor Roosevelt (must read, historical Book, that started modern safari industry)

"The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson", Capstick, Peter Hathaway

"The Snows Of Kilimanjaro And Other Stories", Hemingway, Ernest

"Death in the Long Grass", Capstick, Peter Hathaway

"Horned Death", Burger, John F.

"How I Found Livingstone", Stanley, Henry M. (historic, must read)

"Where Lions Roar, Second Edition: Ten More Years of African Hunting", Boddington, Craig

"Tracks Across Africa: Another Ten Years", Boddington, Craig

"Ivory, Horn and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis", Orenstein, Ronald

"Killing for Profit: Exposing the Illegal Rhino Horn Trade", Rademeyer, Julian

"There's Something About Buffalo", Thomas, Kevin

"From Cape to Casserine", Boddington, Craig

"From Mount Kenya to the Cape", Boddington, Craig

 

[Safari Dave]

I love Capstick. (1980's)

I would read all of his books, then read Boddington's books for an update on Africa.


If you have time, read some of the "classics," just for amusement.

 

[dgr416]

Elmer Keiths Safari Book is totally awesome too but its usually expensive but well worth it .Keiths Rifles is asesome too as all his books are .

 

[BlackRhino]

One of my favorite book is Bartle Bull's "Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure". It's nicely illustrated. You will find old maps and many photographs. I have an older edition from the 1980s but a newer edition is still available. In this magnificent book, Bull charts the history of the African safari from the first great expedition of 1836, when Cornwallis Harris crossed the Transvaal with an ox-wagon, to the guides of today, carrying on the tradition in the swamps of Tanzania and the forests of Ethiopia. Capturing the timeless beauty of the African bush, Bull tells of the men and women who made this land their home from Frederick Courtenay to Beryl Markham, the legendary expeditioners who brought fame to the safari; from Teddy Roosevelt to the Prince of Whales, and the native Africans who made the adventures possible. I must read for the hunter who likes the historic background of our passion.

 

[Sideshow]

One of my favorite book is Bartle Bull's "Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure". It's nicely illustrated. You will find old maps and many photographs. I have an older edition from the 1980s but a newer edition is still available. In this magnificent book, Bull charts the history of the African safari from the first great expedition of 1836, when Cornwallis Harris crossed the Transvaal with an ox-wagon, to the guides of today, carrying on the tradition in the swamps of Tanzania and the forests of Ethiopia. Capturing the timeless beauty of the African bush, Bull tells of the men and women who made this land their home from Frederick Courtenay to Beryl Markham, the legendary expeditioners who brought fame to the safari; from Teddy Roosevelt to the Prince of Whales, and the native Africans who made the adventures possible. I must read for the hunter who likes the historic background of our passion.

Thanks I’ll have a look at that.

 

[Altitude sickness]

If asking for African related. Some history and intrigue