Safari Press Inc. 1999, Long Beach, 2nd edn, 233pp, color and b&w photos. Many people have been on safari but few have been on safari alone! Dr. Reinald von Meurers's record is unique: He has been on twenty-five self-guided hunts in the Cameroon; he has hunted from Lake Chad to.....
Rowland Ward. 2014 Johannesburg, 852pp, drawings, color photos, ltd to 1500 numbered copies. Rowland Ward’s Records of Big Game is known worldwide as the original Record Book. It was first published in 1892, and quickly became the standard among sportsmen and naturalists. It contains detailed descriptions of the various game.....
Safari Press Inc. 2007 Long Beach, 6 audio CDs, running time 7 hours 29 minutes. Now for the first time on CD as a audio book! This is the first book written by W. D. M. Bell, an intrepid adventurer, who was known far and wide as “Karamojo” Bell for.....
Carnegie Institution of Washington. 1936 Washington, publication No. 470, 358pp, b/w photos, fold-out map seismology diagrams throughout. With contributions by J. B. Macelwane, S.J. Perry Byerly, Johannes Felsch, and H.S. Washington, this large quarto sized book has over 70 plates including geological map of the area, photo illustrations of the.....
Countrysport Press. 1991 Traverse City, 256pp, illus. A release of previously uncollected stories of the wandering through Africa of this giant in American sporting literature. Stories on the hunting, the game, the danger, and the people through the eyes of the author of USE ENOUGH GUN and HORN OF THE.....
Trophy Room Books. 1999 California, 1st edn, 227pp, photos, ltd to 1000 signed and numbered copies. Anyone who has hunted in Africa during the past 20 years knows Lou Hallamore - at least by his superb reputation. He's the man who has spent more time in leopard blinds than most.....
Trophy Room Books. 2000 California, 1st edn, 297pp, photos, ltd to 1000 signed and numbered copies. His godmother was Isak Dinesen. He grew up with the likes of Phil Percival, Bror Blixen and Eric Rundgren. His company, the legendary Selby & Holmberg Safaris took out Robert Ruark. Andrew Holmberg holds.....
Trophy Room Books. 1998 California, 1st edn, 267pp, 100 b&w photos, ltd to 1000 signed and numbered copies. Hoffman was an American with an intense desire to become a PH and so he ventured to Africa where he guided clients in Botswana, Ethiopia and Tanzania among other places.
Safari Press. 2008 Long Beach, 1st edn, 277pp, color photos, ltd to 1,000 signed, numbered, & slipcased copies. Signed by Catherine Robertson and Kevin Robertson. Volume 64 in the Safari Press's Classics in African Hunting Series. Doctari (aka Kevin Robertson) is well known for his superlative series of books on.....
John Murray. 1904 London, 1st edn, 440pp Frontis + plates + folding maps + map. Although much of this work concerns the author’s military actions in Afghanistan, Burma, the Sudan and other locales, there are also descriptions of his big game hunts. With his brother, he embarked on a three-month.....
Trophy Room Books. 1999 California, 1st edn., 350pp, 130 b&w photos, ltd. to 1000 numbered, signed copies. The stories recounted herein are richly detailed and fascinating. They impart not only the remarkable adventures and personality of the author himself but also a writing style that is cogent, observant and above.....
Rowland Ward Ltd. 2019 Long Beach, 824pp, 325 color and B&W images, 85 distribution maps, 8.5x11, hard cover with game-pocket book in rear pocket. For more than two-and-a-half years the production team at Rowland Ward Ltd. has been hard at work preparing the 30th edition of its iconic Records of.....
James Nisbet & Co. Ltd. 1945 London, 223pp illus, fold-out map. Set in Uganda, it is the story of hippos, gorillas, lions, man-eaters, giraffes, etc. Pitman was especially fond of lions, and his section on man-eaters is terrific.
Trophy Room Books. 1988 Agoura, CA, 203pp, illus. Fascinating chronicle of elephant hunting by professional hunter George Rushby, deputy game warden of two of the best game reserves in what is now Tanzania. Recounts achievements of many old-time elephant hunters, including chapters on James Sutherland, the famous ivory hunter. Fine-quality.....
Rowland Ward. 1987 London, 247pp, 2 color illus, 59 b&w illus, maps, diagrams, ltd to 1,250 unnumbered, signed copies. This is the revised and updated edition of the author's sought-after title, IVORY. Author spent 40 plus years hunting elephant in Africa; book contains a wealth of stories on ivory and.....
Books of Africa. 1982 Cape Town, 1st edn, 319pp, profuse color/b&w illus. A super book in large format on the wildlife of South Africa and the struggle for conservation. Includes the early history of conservation in Southern Africa and the main players in this fight to save the wildlife. Many.....
Rowland Ward/Game Coin. 1986 San Antonio, 626pp, color illus, large size, limited to 3000 numbered copies. Devoted to Africa and Asia only. Thousands of entries of record size animals dating as far back as the 1850s. Contains color illustrations of most of the African and Asian species. Considered a "must.....
Alfred A. Knopf. 1969 New York, 2nd printing, 302pp, illus. A semi-autobiographical account that gives a great deal of insight in how Jack O'Connor grew up in the South West, near Tucson, Arizona, from very humble beginnings. Contains some of his finest non-hunting text he ever wrote.
Rand McNally & Co. 1963 Chicago, 188pp, color illus. Meissner traveled alone in the CAR and Chad. Hunting for Barbary sheep, lion, buffalo, hippo, bongo, elephant, and a rogue gorilla. Author was a German who wrote various hunting books. This is, unfortunately, the only book that was translated.
Seeley & Service. 1951 London, 445pp, illus, end-paper map. James Mellon, who wrote AFRICAN HUNTER, wrote of this book..."No one but a madman would go on safari without a copy of Big Game Shooting in Africa." He planned all his trips with this work in hand. Covers virtually all of.....
Thacker, Spink & Co. (1933), Private LTD. 1962 Calcutta, 166pp, photos. Describes the author's experiences in hunting man-eating leopards and tigers as well as the mugger crocodile. When the author gets desperate to attract man eaters he is forced to use man as the bait. Also includes hints on how.....
Thacker, Spink & Co., Private Ltd. 1965 Calcutta, 155pp, photos. Hunting in the forests of India for water buffalo, tiger, gaur, wild boar, elephant and more. Also chapters on poaching, calling game and man-eating tiger. In the Hazaribagh district, he collected very large sambar. Somerville's books have now become very.....
Books of Zimbabwe. 1982 Zimbabwe, 455pp,illus, map. It is an absolute toss-up as to whether Alfred Neumann's book or Walter Bell's book is the better elephant title. One thing is for sure - you will have some of the best reading of your life while making up your mind! Exact.....
Holt Rhinehart & Winston. 1973 New York, 256pp, illus. From the African veldt to Alaska's glacier country, Page recounts the joys of a lifetime of global hunting. A much undervalued book that is very well written and describes many hunts for interesting species such as bongo, Stone sheep, Iranian urials.....
Safari Press. 1986 Long Beach, 330pp, 29 plates, numerous text illus, photos, fold-out map, limited to 1000 numbered, & slipcased copies. Edouard Foa was the premier collector for the Paris National Museum. Traversing the entire continent from west to east, he pursued his game in the area of what is.....
