Book recommendations on Big game hunting

[uneducated_outdoorsman]

Death in the long grass and others by peter hathaway capsti

Hi

I would suggest the following:-

African Rifles and Cartridges - John Taylor
Safari Rifles - Craig Boddington
Horn of the Hunter - Robert Ruark
Horned Death - John F Burger

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Thanks for the list! Will need to look them all up

 

[uneducated_outdoorsman]

Death in the Long Grass by Capstick or if you want a really ripping yarn or several get Jim Corbett’s Trilogy about his exploits hunting man eating tigers and the odd man eating leopard in 1920s India.

Sounds great! Thanks for the recommendation

 

[uneducated_outdoorsman]

My top 6 would be

1. Adventures of an Elephant Hunter, James Sutherland
2. Months of the Sun, Ian Nyschens
3. Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter, WDM Bell
4. Big Game Hunting in Central Africa, Buckley
5. Mtanda Batho: Hunter and Adventurer (Dream Africa Publishers (2013) Enlarged work of Jungle Man, by P.J. Pretorius
6. Hunting the Dangerous Game of Africa, John Kingsley Heath

It's a while since i read Sutherland's book but it has stuck with me as probably the best although it is much shorter than Nyschen's which is a truly amazing account of the thrill and dangers of elephant hunting.
Bell's book is a classic in many ways, not only for his marksmanship and hunting prowess but his sheer pioneering spirit and the extent to which he hunted Africa.
Buckley's book is another excellent read.
The 2013 book about P J Pretorius also tells of his amazing exploits as a scout in the great war.
JK Heath's account of how he survived an attack by a lion is just one of a number of remarkable stories.

Brilliant! Thanks for the info!

 

[Klenchblaize]

Capstick most certainly draws you in with his recounting of Hunter daring-do and straight-talking accounts of each beast's dietary predilections, but for a greater sense of The Dark Continent (I use the term in the correct context and without apology) as a hunting ground one must look to a select band of authors from an earlier period if wishing to lay bare the true majesty of shoulderng a rifle in the African bush.

K

 

[enfieldspares]

I’m looking for some recommendation on a couple good reads. Could anyone recommend any good reads on African hunting/safari. Open to all recs, biography, non-fiction, fiction, classics etc.

Any if anyone is looking to off load old copies I may be interested!

Cheers!

If you can get it cheap then "Elephant!" (with the exclamation mark) by David Enderby Blunt. I got mine for about £3 from a charity shop then sold it or gave it away before I realised that they were daft money. If you just want a read and the not to keep your local authority library did used to have an inter-library load scheme where you could request a book. Any book.

 

[bowji john]

Don't read

Go !

Before it has gone

Any experience you can have today is a pale imitation of what I (we) took for granted 50 years ago

The experience you can get today will not exist tomorrow

 

[Bowland blades]

All Corbet's work are good as are also" The Man eaters of Tsavo" Lt . Col0nel JH Patterson D.S.O

 

[Dougal McGuire]

I'm reading Two Dianas In Alaska by Agnes Herbert and find it very entertaining but also informative with cartridge and rifle discussions etc. I imagine her book Two Dianas in Somaliland is similar but I haven't read it yet.

 

[Klenchblaize]

K

 

[wanderer]

Project Gutenberg have plenty of free ebooks to download from their website.
Just starting to read:-
Big Game Shooting (Clive Phillipps Wolley) which is in 2 volumes and is Circa 1894.

Slightly different and not specifically "Big Game" is:-
Hunting with the bow and arrow (Pope) which covers the early decades of the 20th Century.

Both the above are free downloads to read on your device of choice.