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We all read the post about the wrost book, now how about the best. Since I started it, I'll go first and I say it has to be African Hunter by JA Hunter by far. This is the book that started it all for this city boy when I was only 10 or 11years old.Marlin Perkins from wild kingdon had alot to do with it also. | ||
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Jack O'Connor's Big Game Hunts (I know it isn't pure Africa) and anything by Boddington. Safari Rifles goes with me wherever I travel. I can read and reread it. | |||
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Horn of the Hunter by Ruark Where Lions Roar by Boddington Those are two that leap to mind. "There always seems to be a big market for making the clear, complex." | |||
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Onr of my all time favorites is without a doubt John F Burger's "Horned Death". I mean how can you go wrong with a sampling of chapters as such: "Stampede in the night" "Death touches lightly" "Five man eaters of Idete" "The Chinganada killer" "The one horned devil of Cherida" "The cannibals of the Ubangi" "Tough time in the Rift Valley" "Rifles and their capacities" To name a few..... Oh I can smell the wood smoke, fresh elephant dung, and gun oil from here... | |||
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If there is better than PHC's "Death in the Long Grass"", I haven't read it yet. "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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I have to go with Ruarks "Horn of the Hunter" also. William Berger True courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne The courageous may not live forever, but the timid do not live at all. | |||
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Personally I think Tony Sanchez-Arino books are worth reading. I really enjoyed LAST OF THE FEW and ELEPHANTS, IVORY, & HUNTERS. Tony is not so old that his stuff is completely irrelevant. I think Boddington has put out a lot of very informative stuff and his writing is definitely current. As just an enjoyable read I thnk Ruark's USE ENOUGH GUN and Hemingway's GREEN HILLS OF AFRICA are my favorites. MARK H. YOUNG MARK'S EXCLUSIVE ADVENTURES 7094 Oakleigh Dr. Las Vegas, NV 89110 Office 702-848-1693 Cell, Whats App, Signal 307-250-1156 PREFERRED E-mail markttc@msn.com Website: myexclusiveadventures.com Skype: markhyhunter Check us out on https://www.facebook.com/pages...ures/627027353990716 | |||
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Ian Nyschens "Months of the Sun" is one of the most beautifully written safari books I have ever read. I highly recommend it. | |||
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Anything and everything by Elgin Gates. I think Elgin was the real deal. | |||
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I recall the old Shikar and Safari from Edison Marshall, nowadays so forgotten and dealing with the golden era of hunting. | |||
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I'll second on Death in The Long Grass. | |||
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Where Lions Roar is right up there along with Tales of a Trophy Hunter and Heart of an Africian Hunter both by Peter Flack. Togeather the two eddited Africian Hunter II. | |||
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Can somebody give me a little synopsis of "Use Enough Gun"? also "Uhuru". I recently finished "Something of Value" and am trying to decide on which one to read next. I love Ruark's prose style. | |||
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Any of Corbett's books on hunting the maneaters of India. | |||
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What hunting cat said... Jim Corbetts books great reads! You guys talk about Leopards here a fair bit... how about Leopards that break into village houses and kill an occupant spirit them out of that house and eat them nearby. This was the sort of Cat that Corbett faced fairly often! | |||
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Greg R, I second Ian Nyschens.. the matter of fact way he describes daily nose to nose elephant encounters, without embelishment or attempting to increase the drama... does just that. "Death in the Long Grass" & "Horned Death" both have had very formative effects on me. Mike "Too lazy to work and too nervous to steal" | |||
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I like them ALL but my three favorites are Horn of the Hunter, Where Lions Roar and Death in the Long Grass. ______________________ | |||
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1 African Game Trails T R Roosevelt 2 Maneaters of Tsavo Patterson 3 Something of Value Ruark 4 Hunter J A Hunter | |||
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Good Reads Months of the Sun By Nyschens Memoirs of an African Hunter by Irwin Fourteen Years in the African Bush by Marsh Search for the Spiral Horn Where Lions Roar From Kenya to the Cape all by Boddington | |||
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I think we need to distinguish between "technical" and "literary" types of books. On the technical side, I vote for African Hunter and African Hunter II, along with Robertson's Perfect Shot. For more leisurely readling, I vote for Ruarks 's "Something of Value", J.A. Hunters "White Hunter", and Boddingtons "Where Lions Roar". | |||
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Here are some thoughts on this subject pulished on the Safari Press web site. It's interesting the comment they make towards the end where they say, "African Hunter by James Mellon has been universally hailed as the best book ever on African hunting. Although dated (first published in 1975), it remains the standard reference text for all who go on safari." I haven't read that one. Any thoughts? Vic Recommended Reading The following is a list of books published by Safari Press that contain hunting information on specific countries or animals or sporting weapons. Botswana Where Lions Roar/Craig Boddington Under the African Sun/Frank Hibben Hunting in Botswana/Tony Sanchez Cameroon Buffalo, Elephant, & Bongo/von Meurers Solo Safari/Terry Cacek The Last of the Few/Tony Sanchez Central African Republic, CAR Heart of an African Hunter/Peter Flack Under the African Sun/Frank Hibben Hunting in Botswana/Tony Sanchez The Last of the Few/Tony Sanchez Where Lions Roar/Craig Boddington Ethiopia Heart of an African Hunter/Peter Flack Where Lions Roar/Craig Boddington Hunting in Ethiopia/Tony Sanchez Kenya African Safaris/Major Anderson Horn of the Hunter/Robert Ruark Out in the Midday Shade/Bill York Under the African Sun/Frank Hibben 14 Years in the African Bush/Anthony Marsh Hunting in Kenya/Tony Sanchez Mozambique Where Lions Roar/Craig Boddington Heart of an African Hunter/Peter Flack Baron in Africa/Brian Marsh My Last Kambaku/Leo Kroeger Pondoro/John Taylor Namibia The Hunting Instinct/Philip Rowter Where Lions Roar/Craig Boddington South Africa Heart of an African Hunter/Peter Flack The Hunting Instinct/Philip Rowter Memoirs of an African Hunter/Terry Irwin Under the African Sun/Frank Hibben Where Lions Roar/Craig Boddington Hunting in South Africa/Tony Sanchez Sudan Out in the Midday Shade/Bill York Hunting in Sudan/Tony Sanchez Tanzania Heart of an African Hunter/Peter Flack Horn of the Hunter/Robert Ruark Memoirs of an African Hunter/Terry Irwin The Last of the Few/Tony Sanchez Where Lions Roar/Craig Boddington Under the African Sun/Frank Hibben Zambia Heart of an African Hunter/Peter Flack Where Lions Roar/Craig Boddington Hunting in Zambia/Tony Sanchez Zimbabwe Heart of an African Hunter/Peter Flack Mahohboh/Ron Thomson Months of the Sun/Ian Nyschens Under the African Sun/Frank Hibben Where Lions Roar/Craig Boddington General African Hunting The book universally considered the best up-to-date book on which rifles, calibers, scopes, and so on to take to Africa is Safari Rifles by Craig Boddington . The Perfect Shot by Kevin Robertson shows anatomically correct drawings of the location of the vital parts of all African Game animals found below the Zambesi. It is in all in color and also contains hunting methods and natural history of game animals. Invaluable book! African Hunter by James Mellon has been universally hailed as the best book ever on African hunting. Although dated (first published in 1975), it remains the standard reference text for all who go on safari. Many chapters, such as “The Element of Danger†and “How to Book a Safari,†and the animal check lists, are as valid today as they were when Mellon wrote them in 1975. If clients are going to a special locale, Safari Press has put together the African Country Series of books on hunting in eight African countries, including Tanzania (sold out), Zimbabwe (sold out), Sudan, Botswana, Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa, and Kenya. They give a wonderful overview in historic terms of hunting in each of these countries. (See list above.) | |||
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Have to go wqith Capstick's "Death In The Long Grass." After all, it was THE tome that started it all! I love all his books for the most part, followed by Sanchez-Arino and Elgin Gates' book. jorge USN (ret) DRSS Verney-Carron 450NE Cogswell & Harrison 375 Fl NE Sabatti Big Five 375 FL Magnum NE DSC Life Member NRA Life Member | |||
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Safari Girls Gone Wild Make sure to get the DVD with it. Hunt as long as you can As hard as you can. You may not get tommorrow. | |||
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Hi GAHUNTER: Love Ruark too. Uhuru is the succession story to "Something of Value", the story tells about how the Mau Mau activities continued in Kenia back then, although the charactes are different (and the story it's a lot more blood thirsty and less africa-romantic). "Use enough Gun" tells various stories about Ruarks (and his characters) safaris. It is not one continuous story, but rather individual stories, although some are long enough that they could be a short book on their own. I thing I remember reading that "Use enough Gun" was complied posthumeosly. Anyway, both of them are worth reading, and while you're at it, you might also read "Horn of the Hunter" if you havn't done so already. Enjoy the reading! 500NE | |||
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This thread is making Safari Press and Amazon some money I just ordered: Use Enough Gun Ruarks Africa The Green Hills of Africa and From Mt. Kenya to the Cape. ______________________ | |||
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Can you recommend a good read on leopard hunting or elephant hunting? ______________________ | |||
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It is a dead tie for me, PHC's "Death in the Long Grass" and Ruark's "Horn of the Hunter". One inspires the hunt, the other inspires writing about it. | ||
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Safari by Bartell Bull was the one I have enjoyed the most but many of the ones mentioned already are very good. You can borrow money but you can not borrow time. Go hunting with your family. | |||
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GAHUNTER-Uhuru is very similar to SOV and if u liked that u will enjot Uhuru.The other book is more a collection of essays and short stories gleaned from the many magazine articles Ruark wrote through the years. We seldom get to choose But I've seen them go both ways And I would rather go out in a blaze of glory Than to slowly rot away! | |||
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Boddington and Flack edited Africian Hunter II they were also contributing writers. The book is a collection of relatively short stories on most of the countries one could hunt. | |||
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500NE and eyedoc, Thank you both for responding. Yes, I've already read "Horn of the Hunter" (hasn't everybody?) I was looking for more of Ruark's fiction. Since I loved "Something of Value," I think I might try "Uhuru" next. Sound's like "Use Enough Gun" would be a fun read also. | |||
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My absolute number one, favorite safari book is Horn of the Hunter by Robert Ruark Other good Ruark books: Robert Ruark's Africa (compilation of stories - edited by Michael McIntosh) The Lost Classics (compilation of stories - edited by Jim Casada) Another great book about safaris and their history is: Safari: A Chronicle of Adventure by Bartle Bull -Bob F. | |||
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Safari by Bartle Bull is particularly good because it gives you a baseline to understand all the politics, players and history of safari. When you read it, your expanded knowledge of the prisms through which the others write will give you much more enjoyment than before. Even an experienced reader of Hunter, Capstick, et al, will really get a lot out of Bull's book.. and then they'll wish to read their old favorites again.... at least, I did! JudgeG ... just counting time 'til I am again finding balm in Gilead chilled out somewhere in the Selous. | |||
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Alot of good ones are already listed that I have enjoyed, obviously some more than others. However, I have to go with Capt. Stigards book on Elephant hunting. I picked that book up (lst edition in a used out of the way book store in downtown Kansas City as I was leaving for the Sudan in '73. Maybe it's because a lot of what he wrote along with his death took place where I was going, but it has always been special. I coouldn't put it down on the plane ride over or while waiting in Heathrow for the next flight south. Scarce book, but if you can find it, don't pass it by. | |||
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"The Hunting Imperative" by Richard Harland He is the real deal. Thanks, Bill Stewart for recommending it to me. I second the recommendations of "Mahohboh" and "Months in the Sun". Of course, I like "African Hunter II", especially the 59" kudu on page 109 - taken at Chete, by the way. Not the lowveld. | |||
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It depends on your interests, I think, but the one I have re-read most is Neumann's "Elephant Hunting in East Equitorial Africa." "Months of the Sun" is quite inspiring and, of course, transpired where you can still hunt today. Anything by Lyell and Foran, all excellent. ------------------------------- Will Stewart / Once you've been amongst them, there is no such thing as too much gun. --------------------------------------- and, God Bless John Wayne. NRA Benefactor Member, GOA, N.A.G.R. _________________________ "Elephant and Elephant Guns" $99 shipped “Hunting Africa's Dangerous Game" $20 shipped. red.dirt.elephant@gmail.com _________________________ Hoping to wind up where elephant hunters go. | |||
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mark65x55 It may be hard to find now, but Hallamore's book "Chui" is a great technical book on hunting leopard. CFA *If you are not hunting in Africa you are planning to hunt in Africa* | |||
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The Rediscovered Country by Stewart Edward White. His account of a safari led by Cunningham into unknown territory pre WWI. By the way, what's a good source for used books on the web? I'll quit buying guns when my wife quits buying shoes. | |||
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