What are you reading?

[Hunt anything]

I just learned of it, I'm hoping to hear more as well.

Sporting Classics has copies of the Thunder Without Rain book. I started to order one but got sidetracked.

 

[Trogon]

Up next after the current Robert Ruark book, had to take a quick look through. Appreciate this as well @Hogpatrol, more than a little useful info.

 

[PerH]

This one now , About the kitchens and recipes , parties and guests in the homes of Karen Blixen in Africa and in Denmark . Ordering kitchen equipment and much more from both Denmark and abroad to get sent to Kenya to build up the kitchen and quality there .

Learning both the native recipes and learning Danish and continental style to the helpers there . Quite a very good book with short stories of many kind , and yes about safaris there also .

 

[Kouprey]

Has anyone read this one? Relatively new.

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I have read this a few months ago. It is a very well resarched book about all subspecies of syncerus caffer: zoology, ecology, hunting history, the author's buffalo hunts in East and West Africa. Historical tales by old professional hunters and authors like Hemingway and Ruark are discussed. McIntyre even writes short bits about the wild cattle of Asia and other parts of the world.
It's not a book to read in one go - many details and information with lots of very interesting endnotes, took me some time to digest it all. And there are several biographical details about the author throughout the book that could have been omitted in my opinion. But McIntyre was a good professional writer with a lot of hunting experience. Though sometimes a strange mix of biography, reference book and hunting tale, i recommend this book.

 

[Big guns]

Just finished a book on Eisenhower, "Ike's Bluff," and am now re-reading Stephen King's "The Stand."

 

[Altitude sickness]

If you need motivation to be more prepared. This one will do that. Some of the writing is a little predictable and a few lines are a little cheesy. But it’s a fast read that will make you question if you’re prepared for a disaster.

One Second After book by William R. Forstchen

 

[mark-hunter]

Right now, I am flipping through Gun digest 2025 annual edition, and latest African Hunting Gazette quarterly.

 

[DieJager]

I've just read Conquistador; Hernán Cortés, king Montezuma and the last stand of the Aztecs by Buddy Levy. History book about the conquest of Mexico. Great book, reads like a novel.

Regarding Africa just started with Mahohboh by Ron Thomson.

 

[Altitude sickness]

That Cortes story is epic.

 

[DieJager]

That Cortes story is epic.

It indeed is. Thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[nomspc]

“Suspect” by Robert Crais. If you love dogs…

 

[Russ16]

Im wrapping up Ivory’s Ghosts about the history of the ivory trade and eventual start of elephant conservation. It’s quite good.

 

[Lancaster]

I thought this was a very good book! Anyone that has spent anytime in Mozambique should enjoy it.

And...where we hunted last year in Zimbabwe on the Moz border (Zambezi valley) was one of the areas featured in Ian N's book

 

[bakerb]

I just finished “Throne of Grace” about the mountain man Jedidiah Smith. Enjoyed it.

I’m about 20% into the western novel “Monte Walsh” by Jack Schaefer and am REALLY enjoying it.

I started Blixens “African Hunter” and was enjoying it so I stopped. Have a bear hunt in June and saving it for the tree stand.

 

[dhoover]

"On the Real Origin of Species by Means of Life". I'm about 1/2 way through and understand about 20% of it but it's fascinating.

 

[Dholupko]

Just finishing volume 4 of Winston Churchill’s 6 volume set about WW2. Getting quite an education in the process.

 

[Tintin]

Just finished Saturday at M.I.9 by Airey Neave, who ran the underground escape lines for Allied servicemen in occupied Europe in WW2.

Now onto the latest bestseller from Graeme Wright.

 

[Greffdog]

Just finishing volume 4 of Winston Churchill’s 6 volume set about WW2. Getting quite an education in the process.

I am reading this at a snails pace because I find it so dense. Still on book 1 so I have a long ways to go!

 

[cajunchefray]

"The Maneaters of Kumaon" by Jim Corbett.
His style of writing was special.

 

[cajunchefray]

What is particularly infuriating to me is the insidious spread of "presentism." Very few people have studied any history, so they have no sense of the world or it cultures before they became aware of it. Inevitably, they then judge historical events by the norms of their particular culture and contemporary society - judging the past by norms of the present. It is hard to imagine a more arrogant exhibition of sheer ignorance.

@RedLeg, well stated.
Most Americans, excepting those few that have studied history, have a very poor understanding of historical cultures, values, thinking, and mindset.
Valid education, as so many other cultures emphasize, is desperately needed in our society.