Any general interest book recommendations?

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Just finished reading "A Last Wild Place" by Mike Tomkies and wondered if anyone can recommend anything similar? (if you haven't read it, try looking it up, you may enjoy it). I've read many books on Africa (e.g. Capstick, Selous etc) but wondered if anyone knew of any others UK or non-Africa based? (Already read Charles St.John's "Wild Sports & Natural History of the Highlands" and William Scrope's "Days of Deer Stalking in the Scottish Highlands").

Any natural history welcome not necessarily looking for hunting etc.

Thanks!
 
I just started reading a book called "Classic Hunting Stories" edited by Lamar Underwood. Very american with hunting stories by Roosevelt, Wheelen, etc. But if you fancy something different, it's a good read. I got it here: http://www.anglebooks.com
 
The Venison hunters By Mike Bennett writing about the venison industry in New Zealand from 1920,s to 1970,s
A literary master piece containing accounts of humour, dismay and a very personal in-depth insight into the daily life of the professional hunter in New Zealand.
 
Foss said:
William Scrope's "Days of Deer Stalking in the Scottish Highlands").
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Whats that book like? I have a beautiful first edition sitting next to me here and I have never read it. Partly because I don't want to damage the book :???:
 
Stop looking and go straight to Amazon and buy the Jim Corbett omnibus 1+2, all of his work in a couple of volumes. If that doesn't fit the bill and cover natural history, hunting, excitment etc then nothing will. Glyn.
 
If you liked Mike Tomkies, try something from Lea McNally. Also try ian thompsons isolation shepherd & the long horizon
 
If you haven't read it already, Jungle man (the story of major pretorius if i spelt it right) or Alaska's wolf man (the story of Frank Glasser).

Jungle man is unputdownable!!

Ezzy
 
+1 for Jim Corbett omnibus 1+2 .You can pick these two books up on Evil Bay quite cheap and they are a really good read.Killed 33 maneaters in 30 years .My favourite is the maneating leopard of Rudraprayag which was responsible for over 400 deaths.It actually walked over a room full of sleeping pilgrims killed a woman at the far end of the room and carried her back over them without anyone knowing what had happened.In his hunt for this leopard Corbett became the hunted several times before he settled accounts.Well worth a read .
Glyn 1 said:
Stop looking and go straight to Amazon and buy the Jim Corbett omnibus 1+2, all of his work in a couple of volumes. If that doesn't fit the bill and cover natural history, hunting, excitment etc then nothing will. Glyn.
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books worth a read

round the world with rod and rifle.

the green hell (by sasha semil, he was a fella a panthalero)

something different but about a family in zim around the 1980 fight for so called independence. dont lets go to the dogs tonight.

don t get much time to read these days with the devalueing of the pound never mind still bass in the sea and roe in the hedgerow.
 
eggy s said:
Whats that book like? I have a beautiful first edition sitting next to me here and I have never read it. Partly because I don't want to damage the book :???:
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Guys, thanks for all the suggestions! I'm going to stock up at Amazon. I appreciate that I could have just used the "other readers who bought this also bought this" facility but its good to have your experienced thoughts!

Eggy s - Re: W.Scrope's book - I found it fascinating especially since I grew up stalking round where he writes about. It's basically pre-victorian understanding of deer in the Highlands: anecdotes of life working in the hills, where they fitted into life, the people that worked with them and the folklore that surrounded them. It also illustrates what they perceived of deer at that time in terms of breeding, antler growth, genealogy etc (only in an observational way not a particularly scientific one).

I understand Scrope's book is now out of print and gold dust to find but I read it sometime ago using the link below, so you could try this if you didn't want to open your £300 + 1st edition.

Days of deer-stalking in the Scottish Highlands; including an account of the nature and habits of the red deer, a description of the Scottish forests, and historical notes on the earlier field-sports of Scotland .. : Scrope, William, 1772-1852 : Free Download Streaming : Internet Archive
 
If you're interested in Highlands history, especially the roll the Highlands played in winning the second world war, look up some of the stuff about SOE. If you want something a little unusual the link below is a great book!

[url]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Secret-Operations-Manual-Paladin-Press/dp/0873647440/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1339719871&sr=8-16

T[/URL]here are several other books about the SEO. There's one all about the activities at Arisaig and around that area, with Fairbairn and Sykes. I can't remember what it's called, I'll look it up later.
 
One man's wilderness - the journals of Richard Proenneke. There are two books - very enjoyable reading about a guy that lived in the wilds of Alaska.
 
A few books by the modern Scottish author, Andrew Grieg:

At the Loch of the Green Corrie - a memoir of a fishing trip up into the highland lochs, and a lot more beside

Electric Brae - nothing to do with field sports, but a thrilling and evocative portrayal of Scottish mountains, winter climbing and love not quite working out

The Return of John MacNab - the classic reimagined for the late 20th century with added socialist tendencies (not as bad as it may sound:cool:)

All good winter fireside and whisky reads
 
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