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Hi, guys and gals. Do any of you know any bookstore in Jo'burg, Cape Town, Harare, or Bulawayo that has a good selection of hunting books? I'm planning to head back over to Zim later this fall to feed my buffalo addiction and would like to shop around. I'm especially looking for 3 books on African hunting. Also, if any of you might have these titles they'd like to sell or trade for, I'd appreciate a PM: "Hunting the African Elephant", Amwell Press; "Months of the Sun", Ian Nyschens, Safari Press 1st Ltd. Ed. (in the slipcase); and, "Search for the Spiral Horn", Boddington, the regular edition, not the $450 one. Might be willing to trade, also, for some books you might need. I keep checking eBay and the book search engines but haven't found them other than outlandish prices from speculative dealers. Besides, it might be fun to browse a bookstore to kill time during layovers anyway. | ||
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Safari Press has two of the three books that you are looking for. Get on line with them or call them. | |||
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Thanks, UEG, but the editions I'm looking for aren't available there ... I wish! BTW, looks like you had another great time with Brad last month. I'd been talking to him about a nyala hunt for this fall but the guy I was going to bring over for a general plains game hunt couldn't make up his mind whether he could get away ... looks like I'll put that one on the back burner. | |||
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Do a search on Ebay. Sometimes you can get a real deal. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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Darn! He's got some great Nyala areas and there's still that other 30" one that I didn't shoot last month. . . .Sorry about you not being able to locate the books with Safari Press. | |||
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You can always contact ZIMBI books in Pretoria they have quite a wide selection and walking trough the store you will walk out with more books. www.Zimbibooks.co.za zimbi@mweb.co.za Frederik Cocquyt I always try to use enough gun but then sometimes a brainshot works just as good. | |||
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Albris, on line, has a large supply of out of print books | |||
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I just bought the Nyschens book from AMazon.com for $37.00. THree days ago they had three in stock. Indy Life is short. Hunt hard. | |||
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I frequent the book search engines (Alibris, Bookfinder) and eBay, but haven't found theses titles yet. The Nyschens book is out in a second edition, just recently published. The one I'm looking for is the first, limited edition in a blue cover and slipcase. Hard to find. | |||
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Hi Post Driver, Both Zimbi books and Rowland Ward have a lot of great books in stock at their respective retail outlets and are nice to visit. Both also have extensive websites and both are run by families very active in the hunting and shooting fields. Directions to their physical outlets are on their websites: Zimbi Books: http://www.zimbibooks.com/Default.asp Rowland Ward: http://www.zimbibooks.com/Default.asp | |||
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PostDriver: I stay at the Michelangelo Hotel in Jo'berg laying over. It is attached to an excellent mall and restaurants. Rowland Ward has a store there with the usual tourist "come ons" but there is a used book section with many African books that are not available here. Maybe you could try them on the phone and get a used book list. MUFASA | |||
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Thanks, Mufasa, I'll try that! | |||
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I get a news letter /list regularly from Gunnerman Books,P.O. Box 81697, Rochester Hills,Mi 48308 E-mail: gunnermanbks@att.net,Phone: 248-608-2856. Didn't see it listed on the list I found but he has quite a few out of print and rare sporting books. Only bookstore I've been to in J'burg is the one in the airport, but they only deal in current books. Luck in your quest. I know what it is to look for an out of print book. I finally found 'Scouting On Two Continents' by Frederick Russel Burnham of Zimbabwe fame at Gunnermans. SCI Life Member NRA Patron Life Member DRSS | |||
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Thanks for the input, guys. I was able to pick up the "... African Elephant" from eBay today. Now for the other two (and after that I want "The East African Hunters" Amwell  ) | |||
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The last 3 trips over there, I have been in several book stores, but none had any books to do with hunting. I think the US has far more options. Safaripress, etc. Good luck | |||
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