Hi all,

My interest in African Big game hunting has become peaked by reading alot of these posts. Could anyone recommend their favorite African Hunting Books. I would love to read a couple classics over the next few months.

Thanks

ddj

USE ENOUGH GUN by Robert Ruark and AFRICAN RIFLES AND CARTRIDGES by John Taylor.

Hunting,Settling and Remembering-Philip Percival

Safari-Bartle Bull

Out in Africa-Andrew Holmberg

White Hunters-Brian Herne

Trophy Hunter in Africa-Elgin Gates

Horn of the Hunter - Ruark

Horned Death - Burger

Death in the Long Grass - Capstick

These should more than whet your appetite. They certainly did mine!

Lots of good ones listed or discussed here:

https://forums.accuratereloading.com/eve/forums/a/frm/f/4521043

What MJines said. Nearly every significant book on Africa has been discussed in that forum.

Thanks. I really appreciate the help.

Two years ago after roping horse flipped over on me and the doc said stay off horses due to a spinal injury(that I'm still having trouble with) my wife and I decided to get serious about hunting. I had always wanted to go to Africa, so we started reading as much as possible. We started with Capstick and that got the fever boiling. But I have to say our fav is Ruark. The Horn of the Hunter and Use Enough Gun are wonderful stories with excitment and humor.

Boddington's books are very informative, but don't have all the excitment of Capstick and Ruark. I'm sitting in a hotel room in Scottdale as I write this waiting for an apointment with a doc to see if I will have to have surgery on my neck. The two books I brought with me on this trip are "Use Enough Gun" and "Pondoro, Ivory Hunter".
Hopefully I will not have to have the sugery and we'll get to make our tip to SA to hunt PG in May.

My all time favorite

Rogues and Marauders

by John Dawkins.

I like most of the stuff Capstick wrote as well as the series he served as editor for.
Also like J.A. Hunter.

Capstick stuff got me started. But a good one is 'After Big Game in Central Africa' by Edouard Foa, so is 'Hunter' by J.A. Hunter.

Please dont forget Mr. Roosevelt's "African Game Trails". I just picked up a first edition- incredible!

Some good recommendations already. One I might at is "Along the Hunters Path" by Kai-Uwe Denker. It's one of the better books I've read.

This has been discussed ad nauseam in the Books and Videos forum below.

Bill Quimby

I recommend "Elephant hunters of the Lado" by Robert Foran, very interesting reading about the poaching activity in the Lado enclave...

I am born 80 years late...

Also see "Nickudu files" - I'd recommend:

Neumann - Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa

and
J.T. McCutcheon - In Africa

There are some real good ones on the Hunting Report website at www.huntingreport.com [URL=http://www.huntingreport.com]
I enjoyed The Hunting Imperative by Richard Harland and Elephant Hunters of the Lado by Robert Foran.
I haven't read it yet, but everybody raves about Along the Hunter's Path by Kai-Uwe Denker. It's on my short list of next to read.

Try to get Mike Cameron's book called "My Wanderings Through Africa" and make sure you read the chapter called "Lust in the dust"