Recommend a good book...

[waco]

Recommend a good book about hunting in Africa.
One that has great stories about the hunts and the guns and ammo used.
Are there any that were written in the late 1800's early 1900's?
I just thought it would make some good reading.

[Tatume]

It's set in the Amazon, not Africa, but a friend just today recommended The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey to me. He said it was the greatest adventure book he's ever read. I'm going to get it to take on my annual boat trip to Cape Hatteras.

[histed]

Anything by Peter Hathaway Capstick. Start with "Death in the Long Grass" Also look for "Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter" by W D M (Karamojo) Bell. Master of the perfect brain shot, used a .275 Rigby!

[dbosman]

I can't recommend hunting books, but if you want to get a feel for old Africa, pick up most any Charles Herman Bosman book.

His tale of waking up after a nap, next to a napping lion, will put the scene inside your head.

[jonp]

Death in The Long Grass is very good.

African Gametrails by T. Rooseveldt is pretty good.

Not Africa but I read Man-Eaters of Kumaon by Jim Corbett when I was a kid and it was quite a book.

[waco]

Exellent. Thanks guys.

[jrmartin1964]

The first one that comes to mind for me is "African Game Trails", by Theodore Roosevelt.
Not about Africa, but another interesting read is "Into the Brazilian Wilderness" , also written by Theodore Roosevelt.

Jim

[Larry Gibson]

The 8 volume set (Hunting In [country])by Safari Press and edited by Tony Sanchez-Arino will give you endless stories and information by multiple authors from the mid 1800s to the 1990s. All the great African hunter/authors' stories are there. There is a volume for each country; Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Sudan, Botswana, Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa and Kenya. Information on each author and the illustrations are superb. I love my set and am continually reading and reading the stories.

Larry Gibson

[waksupi]

Got Kindle? Might find something here.

https://archive.org/search.php?query=hunting%20AND%20mediatype%3Atexts

http://manybooks.net/search-advanced.php

[waco]

My wife has some sort of audible book app.
It might be nice to hear the books read while at the loading bench.
Maybe I'll check that out as well.

[jonp]

My wife has some sort of audible book app.
It might be nice to hear the books read while at the loading bench.
Maybe I'll check that out as well.

Truely? Wow, that would be cool

[waco]

Truely? Wow, that would be cool

I found the app for the iPhone. It's called "audible"

[MT Gianni]

"Hunter" is a good read. John A Hunter is the author.

[osteodoc08]

Capstick has always been a favorite and Roosevelt as also listed.

Don't forget about Robert Raurk.

[paul edward]

1. My Reminiscences of East Africa by Paul von Lettow Vorbeck. World War One in German East Africa. Several references to hunting to feed the troops.

2. The Lunatic Express: An Entertainment In Imperialism by Charles Miller. Building the railway from Mombasa to Nairobi and Lake Victoria through lion infested country.

[StrawHat]

Books by Sir Samuel White Baker are available from the Guttenberg Press at no charge.

http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/796

[CastingFool]

I have African Game Trails, and the Maneaters of Kumaon on my bookshelf. There are some interesting photos in African Game Trails.

[DR Owl Creek]

I have a number of books on Teddy Roosevelt. They're all really interesting. I don't have any actually written by him (a little too pricey), but some of the ones I like are:

"Roosevelt's Thrilling Experiences in the Wilds of Africa", by Marshall Everett, J. H. Moss Publishers, New York (1910)

"The Hunting and Exploring Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt", Edited by Donald Day, Dial Press, New York (1955)

"Great Heart, The Life Story of Theodore Roosevelt", by Daniel Henderson, Wm Edwin Rudge Publishers, New York (1919)

These old books have a lot of great photographs (some of which aren't very PC by today's standards), but add a lot to the stories. They may be available as ebooks or on-line.

Dave

Deuteronomy 5: 4-22

[Shiloh]

Use Enough Gun.

Robert Ruark.

Shiloh

[Piedmont]

The Capstick books are a great read but I have soured on him after learning on the internet that he often stretched and borrowed stories.

A classic that I read several years ago is The Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia by Sir Samuel Baker. Set in the early 1860s it has lots of hunting and exploring. Fishing too. Excellent book. He did another something like Hunting With the Hound & (something) in Ceylon. This one was written in the 1840s. He was shooting Indian elephants like they were varmints with a big black powder double.

[Mike W1]

Horn of the Hunter - Ruark

[Nueces]

"African Game Trails" is a great read. I just finished "River of Doubt", which was about Teddy and Kermit, but authored by Millard. I agree that it's one of the finest written tales of my experience.

[rhead]

Frank Buck has a few also. It was over fifty years ago that i read them.

on the audio subject. i use a program from Nextup called text to voice. it will convert digital text to voice. by the time you get the high grade voices the total cost is around $120. I get my books from Gutenberg and put them on discs in Mp3 format.

[Fluxed]

African Rifles and Cartridges by John Taylor.
Not as old as you ask for, but it is a great African hunting book.

[Bucking the Tiger]

"The Man-Eaters of Tsavo" by J.H. Patterson. It is a story of two man eating lions in what became Kenya in 1907.

[MtGun44]

Just keep in mind, however enjoyable, Capstick is fiction.

Bill