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Seem to find myself travelling into London a lot lately so to endure the 40 min journey have been taking my kindle and reading hunting books on the way there and back , am on the 4th Ron Thompson book and have polished off books like Robert Ruark use enough gun and a few others ... what others can anyone recommend, makes a change when I'm happy the train gets delayed :)
 
Jamouk said:
Seem to find myself travelling into London a lot lately so to endure the 40 min journey have been taking my kindle and reading hunting books on the way there and back , am on the 4th Ron Thompson book and have polished off books like Robert Ruark use enough gun and a few others ... what others can anyone recommend, makes a change when I'm happy the train gets delayed :)
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Just finished “Nyaminyami” by Ron Thomson myself. Slowly working my way through his 6 books. Absolutely fascinating reading. A game rangers life in Rhodesia. I would have loved to have lived his life in Rhodesia but frankly I don’t think i would have survived.
I’ve collected a good few books on big game hunting. They make great reading, Selous, Corbett, Hunter, Patterson, Stigand, Thomson, and a few more obscure but still captivating reading. Ruark and Capstick make great reading and are probably responsible for more people going to hunt in Africa than anyone else.
Two of my uncles, now long deceased, one worked as a DVO, District Veterinary Officer in Tanganyika. The other worked as a tea planter in Burma and Assam. Their stories, probably embellished, told to me as a young kid were fascinating. The DVO uncle wrote a book about his experiences in East Africa. I could recognise his stories now cleaned up and made politically correct. Who else would have had the camp staff talking English with a strong Dublin accent ? Guinness and Stout, the 2 house servants .
 
Woops, recommendations.
Maneaters of Tsavo by Patterson.
Hunter by Hunter
Hunters Tracks by same
The Tigers of Trengganu by Lt. Col. Locke
Kambaku by Harry Manners
Months of the Sun by Ian Nyschens. A fantastic book.
Memoirs of an African Hunter, Terry Irwin.
Jungle Man by P. J. Pretorius


Had to take a look at the bookcase.
 
Bo Diddley said:
Best fishing book I've ever read. If anyone like fishing especially in far-flung places with adventure thrown in give it a read...
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Yeah definitely, I remember reading it when I was younger, I got it from my local library (remember them).
thought it was excellent.
Must be sought after now, cheapest on eBay £200👀
 
mickygism said:
Must be sought after now, cheapest on eBay £200👀
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Blimey.. I brought a copy from Chambers bookshop in Dereham Norfolk after a friend loaned me his copy to read, it took them some time to get it in, £36 if I remember correctly, almost as good a return as buying gold in the era of Gordon Brown's sell-off ;)
 
I have been told 'Stange Tales of the African Bush' by Hannes Wessels is good by a few people who have read it. Out of print now but might be available on Kindle. I have read some of his other books, which were good, but not on hunting. I don't have a Kindle and haven't managed to find a reasonably priced copy yet.

The new books by John Sharp and Robin Hurt look good as well.

'Always a Countryman' by Lord Tweedsmuir is good as well, has quite a bit about hunting in Kenya.

I agree that 'White Hunters' by Brian Herne is really good.

The many Wilbur Smith books are brilliant, particularly if read with 'On Leopard Rock', his autobiography, which explains the background to many of them. Apart from the autobiography, they are of course fiction.
 
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Sika98k said:
Woops, recommendations.
Maneaters of Tsavo by Patterson.
Hunter by Hunter
Hunters Tracks by same
The Tigers of Trengganu by Lt. Col. Locke
Kambaku by Harry Manners
Months of the Sun by Ian Nyschens. A fantastic book.
Memoirs of an African Hunter, Terry Irwin.
Jungle Man by P. J. Pretorius


Had to take a look at the bookcase.
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Sika98k said:
Woops, recommendations.
Maneaters of Tsavo by Patterson.
Hunter by Hunter
Hunters Tracks by same
The Tigers of Trengganu by Lt. Col. Locke
Kambaku by Harry Manners
Months of the Sun by Ian Nyschens. A fantastic book.
Memoirs of an African Hunter, Terry Irwin.
Jungle Man by P. J. Pretorius


Had to take a look at the bookcase.
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Recently read Jungle Man, and what a life he lived!
 
willie_gunn said:
Reminds me of the comment from the stalker on the Hill when I mentioned that the stag we were lining up on didn’t have a great backstop:

“You’ve got 20,000 acres of backstop - how much more do you need?!”
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And likewise…”it’s 14miles to the nearest path. What did you say you reloaded with?”
 
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