 | Horn of the Hunter: The Story of an African Hunt by R. Ruark
Buy new: $23.10 / Used from: $20.38 The pinnacle of African safari writing. If you are in the Ruark market, you also should get "Use Enough Gun." What the heck -- get all the Ruarks except for the Honey Badger. But, since I didn't want to just compile a Ruark list, I chose this as being his "best of show."
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 | Death in the Long Grass by Peter H. Capstick
Buy new: $16.47 / Used from: $10.95 Did Capstick live it, or did he just overhear the stories in a bar? Doesn't matter; the stories are great.
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 | Hunter by John A. Hunter
Buy used from: $49.74 My personal favorite safari book. John Hunter has a conversational tone that makes you wish you had hunted with him.
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 | AFRICAN Rifles & Cartridges by John (Pondoro) Taylor
Even if you are not a "ballistics geek" don't let the title steer you away from this book. Every rifle and cartridge description is accompanied with illustrative stories that are some of the most exciting descriptions of African game hunting I've read.
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 | In Darkest Africa: Or the Quest, Rescue, and Retreat of Emin Governor of Equatoria by Henry M Stanley
Buy new: $20.48 / Used from: $4.48 Politically incorrect as all hell, but a fantastic read.
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 | The White Rhino Hotel: A Novel by Bartle Bull
Buy used from: $0.93 Not specifically a hunting book, but a novel containing excellent passages about long-trek safaris in the golden age of hunting after the close of WWI.
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 | A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa: Being a Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa (Resnick Library of African Adventure, No. 6.) by Frederick Courteney Selous
Buy new: $28.50 / Used from: $22.15 |
 | African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist (Capstick Adventure Library) by Theodore Roosevelt IV
Buy new: $17.79 / Used from: $14.94 T.R. 2d greatest president of the 20th century! But Ronald Reagan never published a book detailing all the beasts he shot.
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 | White Hunters:The Golden Age of African Safaris by Brian Herne
Buy new: $12.92 / Used from: $8.99 Was safari more fun in the golden era? Of course it was, and here are the stories to prove it. Multi-month safaris with hordes of native bearers, philandering PH's, limitless quantities of alcohol in camp, it's all here.
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 | Green Hills of Africa (Scribner Classics) by Ernest Hemingway
Buy new: $18.00 / Used from: $10.00 I paid homage to Ruark, above. Now, read the author that Ruark wished he could have been. You also need to buy The Snows of Kilimanjaro, so you can read the Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber --- best hunting short story ever.
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