What are you reading?

[375 Ruger Fan]

Recently came across this letter from Ernest Hemingway to F Scott Fitzgerald.

Ernest Hemingway's Powerful Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald asked his friend Ernest Hemingway for an honest opinion on his recent book. Hemingway pulled no punches in his assesment.

fs.blog

 

[Berettaco]

I have started reading Wilbur Smith - the Courtney series and really enjoy his storytelling.

 

[Betterinthebush]

Recently came across this letter from Ernest Hemingway to F Scott Fitzgerald.

Ernest Hemingway's Powerful Letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald

F. Scott Fitzgerald asked his friend Ernest Hemingway for an honest opinion on his recent book. Hemingway pulled no punches in his assesment.

fs.blog

We should all have a friend as faithful and honest as Ernest was to F.

 

[tomahawker]

The Golden Grindstone by Angus Graham. Incredible tale of adventure traveling to the Klondike in 1897. Splits his knee cap in the back of beyond and lives with the Indians as it heals. The story of how the women fixed and healed this devastating injury is worth the read alone. A brawling bare knuckle ride into the gold fields, washed down with four fingers of Scotch neat.

 

[Hornedfrogbbq]

Months Of The Sun currently.

 

[tomahawker]

One of my faves. Read Months of the Sun 5 times

 

[idiot101]

Only on page 19 but excellent so far!

 

[Hunt anything]

Just finished this one for the second time.
Pretty good read, dealing with elephant poaching in Kruger in South Africa and Gonarezhou in Rhodesia.
It chronicles the obsession of a game warden chasing the best elephant poacher in his area. It then goes into how he befriends the poacher and gets him to work for the Rhodesians in their battle against terrorist coming from Mozambique, then how the Rhodesians betray him in the end.

 

[tomahawker]

Read Shadrek a couple times myself. Still feel he got hung out to dry

 

[Russ16]

Read Shadrek a couple times myself. Still feel he got hung out to dry

Absolutely. You can hear the regret from Thomson as he wraps up the story.

 

[Ryan]

I stumbled on this in the local used book store.

Interesting, Fred went to Chad and CAR on his first trip to Africa. I only recalled reading and hearing about his two trips to Mozambique. But in all honesty, he was far more successful on those later two trips taking elephant, lion and Cape buffalo and plenty of plains game.

 

[Hunt anything]

Read Shadrek a couple times myself. Still feel he got hung out to dry

Totally agree.

 

[thriller]

Just finished rereading 1491 and am reading 1493 by Charles c Mann. It’s about the americas before Columbus and the impacts of his arrival with the onset of globalization.

 

[cmk]

Re-reading 'The Green Hills of Africa' for the third or fourth time , probably 10 years since last time. Have mostly been reading turn of the century material. After Hemingway it may be time for William Cornwallis Harris to renew my acquaintance with the olden days.

 

[Same'Ol]

 

[pc3]

I cant get enough "Rigby" at the moment...expensive habit, I've sold one kidney, now wondering if you can run .5 of one

 

[DieJager]

Finished the book with the title Medieval Hunting by scholar Richard Almond. Interesting book about hunting in medieval times and the correction of the assumption that only the gentry and royalty hunted, everyone did in some kind of way. Lot of studying of old hunting books and poems and the different kind of techniques the different social classes used.

Because most of the texts were written by and for the gentry the notion in modern times arose that hunting was only a noble pastime.

That stereotype is sadly still around and used by the antis, especially in the UK, to try to outlaw it altogether.

Now started with Jim Corbett his book The Man-Eaters of Kumaon

 

[Tex .416]

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Outstanding book, one that had a dramatic impact on my wife and me both. There are two more in the series, which also are high quality. Highly recommend.

 

[Rigby375]

An oldie but a goodie

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I have now moved on to the (less well known?) sequel: In The Grip Of The Nyika.

I’m about 3/4 of the way through and am enjoying it so far.

For those who haven’t come across it before (and, until recently, that was me), it briefly touches on a handful of additional stories about the Maneaters before they were killed and then covers two further safaris Patterson makes in to the interior of what is today Kenya.

His primary purpose is to survey game and map a new boundary for a reserve but he’s accompanied on each by a different couple of sportsmen so there is plenty of hunting action as well as descriptions of flora, fauna and the customs of native tribes encountered along the way.

The groups encounter a staggering amount and variety of game (they seem barely to be able to move for rhino for example), some of which they shoot as trophies and others they simply observe.

One of the parties also comes across Arthur Neumann’s (of Elephant Hunting in East Equatorial Africa fame) camp which, if you’re a fan of safari books from the golden age, is a nice link between two generations.

The first safari is pretty successful and everyone makes it back safely. The second? Well, not so much…I won’t spoil it for others who may wish to read it themselves but suffice to say it covers the events that led to a statement defending Patterson’s honour in the House of Lords, a threat to sue Winston Churchill and a scandal that occupied Edwardian society before the outbreak of the First World War.