Bookshelf Latest Additions

The books listed here are the latest additions to the Shakari Connection Bookshelf. In no particular order, there are books on African hunting, African exploration, hunting firearms and more. All the books newly added to the website will be listed on this page before going into their various categories and into the author index.

Victor Scarinzi

Simple Man's Dreams: Stories Of The Hunt by Victor Scarinzi (2018) is a memoir of the author's hunting adventures from dreaming of hunting as a young man to eventually visiting 28 countries. His early hunting trip to Africa became one of his most memorable.

Aidan Hartley

The Zanzibar Chest: A Memoir Of Love And War by Aidan Hartley (2004) is the memoir of a childhood in Africa and the continent's wars, which the author witnessed as a journalist in the 1990s. Following the death of his father, Brian Hartley he took himself to the remote mountains and deserts of southern Arabia and the Yemen, where his father had worked as an agricultural officer. While there, he found himself on the trail of the story of an old friend of his father’s, who fell in love and was murdered in southern Arabia fifty years ago.

Wild Life: Adventures On An African Farm by Aidan Hartley (1998) is about the author's adventures and misadventures setting up a farm in Kenya with his wife and two young children. From the synopsis... they "headed off to Laikipia in northern Kenya, where he bought a vast tract of dry land with no fences, no phones and no company at first, aside from the errant witch doctor who cursed the dust of his footsteps".

If you like Aidan Hartley's books, there is a new one due to be published in 2027 called "Paradise of Thorns". It is available to pre-order on Amazon. It contains further tales of his life on the farm where his work is dosing sheep, dipping cattle, fixing machinery, responding to the night alarms of rustlers entering the valley on elephant raids.

Janellea Macbeth

In the Bush: Discovering Africa Through The Eyes Of A First Time Hunter by Janellea Macbeth (2017) recounts the author's journey in Africa on a hunt in South Africa with her daughter and father. Although she grew up within a hunting family (her father had previously hunted in Africa three times), "her first time looking down the scope leads to astonishing realizations about her life and life in Africa".

A R Ramsden

Assam Planter: Tea Planting And Hunting In The Assam by A R Ramsden (1945) is the account of author's move from Britain to Assam, India to take over his family's tea plantation. He has several encounters with leopard, tigers and wild elephant.

Steve M Matthes

Brave: And Other Stories by Steve M Matthes (1988) is a privately published book recounting the author's 60 year career hunting cats with his hunting hounds. For many years he worked for the California Dept of Fish and Game and he was a hunting guide for lion hunters in the US and jaguar hunters in Mexico and Central America.

It is always very interesting to know which books you are buying. Let's take a look at some of the books bought recently from the Bookshelf ...

Miles Bredin

Blood On The Tracks: A Rail Journey From Angola To Mozambique by Miles Bredin (1995) is about the railway that links the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. It starts in the deserted port of Lobito, in Angola and meanders through three civil wars, five countries, a couple of rain forests and the history of 20th-century Africa, to Beira in Mozambique. On its rails it has carried diamonds, cobalt, copper, refugees, food, mercenaries and weapons.

Dr Jorge Pinero

Adventures Outside The Urban Jungle: Life Experiences Few Could Imagine by Dr Jorge Pinero (2024) is the author's first book about his passion for big game hunting and fishing. He writes about his experiences of getting away from the city and living freely in the wilds.

John 'Pondoro' Taylor

Big Game and Big Game Rifles by John Taylor (1948). John Taylor was one of the last professional ivory hunters in East Africa. Using his experiences as an elephant hunter for 25 years, he defends his choices as to which rifle is best to use on big game.

Lawrence W Trotter II

Seeing The Light Through Black Death: Salvation In The African Savanna by Lawrence W Trotter II (2020) is the tale of the author's experience of being 'attacked' by a Cape buffalo bull while on a bow hunting safari in 2012. While this incident is the title of the book, it is mainly the story of the author's life and his faith.

Stewart Edward White

The Rediscovered Country by Stewart Edward White (1915) is another account of White's African travels. This is widely considered the first definitive account of the Northern Serengeti. "In 1910-11 Mrs. White, R. J. Cuninghame, and myself, with a small safari of forty men, took the usual route via the Kedong valley, Mount Suswa, Agate's Drift to Vandeweyer's boma on the Narossara River. At this point we diverged from the usual route and pushed for some distance south into the Narossara Mountains." Free eBook

Hannes Wessels

Strange Tales From The African Bush by Hannes Wessels (2006) is a collection of tales from his 20 year career as a professional hunter in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Zambia and Tanzania, which will make you laugh out loud.

Brian Marsh

Baron In Africa: The Remarkable Adventures Of An Unusual Hunter by Brian Marsh (1997) is the biography of legendary hunter Werner von Alvensleben (1913–1998) who was a German aristocrat who was believed to have fled Hitler’s Germany in 1935 and was interned in Rhodesia at the outbreak of World War II. He escaped to Mozambique and later started the hunting company Safarilandia, which went on to become the most renowned hunting outfit in the country. However, further research done by Rolf Baldus for his German language book 'Auf Safari' about German big game hunters, found Werner von Alvensleben's wartime activity while in Mozambique, was in fact, spying for the United States.

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