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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.

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MARCH 2024

Jim Carmichel

Classic Carmichel: Stories From The Field

Classic Carmichel: Stories From The Field by Jim Carmichel (2016) features the author's hunting adventures and firearms expertise from 40 years as the editor of Outdoor Life magazine. His African hunting tales include one about "the monster 'dead' crocodile that came back to life twice and almost killed him on Zimbabwe’s Zambezi River, also known as the River of Death".


Jim Carmichel's Book Of The Rifle

Jim Carmichel's Book Of The Rifle By Jim Carmichel (1985) is an invaluable work for the big game hunter, rifleman, gunsmith, ballistician and arms historian. It contains lots of factual information, anecdotes and opinions derived from a lifetime devoted to "makin" it shoot better.


Gerald Hanley

Gerald Hanley (1916 – 1992) was an Irish novelist and travel writer. In 1934 he went to East Africa, where he worked on a farm in Kenya until the war in 1939. Joining the King's African Rifles of the British army on the outbreak of the Second World War, Hanley served in Somalia and in Burma.

Warriors And Strangers

Warriors And Strangers by Gerald Hanley (1971) is the story of the author's early experiences in East Africa, where he first went as a young man to work on a farm in Kenya and afterwards, in the army, when he patrolled in the isolated Northern Frontier District and what was then Abyssinia and Italian East Africa.


Candice Millard

River Of The Gods

River Of The Gods by Candice Millard (2022) is an account of the quest by Richard Burton and John Speke to solve the geographic riddle of their era - the location of the source of the Nile river. At the time, European countries were sending out lots of explorations intended to map the unknown areas of the globe and extend their colonial empires. Richard Burton and John Hanning Speke were sent by the Royal Geographical Society to explore new territory for England.

Burton was a mercurial character who spoke 29 languages and was a decorated soldier. Speke was a young aristocrat and Army officer determined to make his mark and passionate about hunting. They were complete opposites in temperament and beliefs and from the start of the expedition, the two men clashed. Two years into the journey, deep in the African interior, Burton became too sick to carry on, but Speke did and claimed he found the source of the Nile at the great lake that he named Lake Victoria.

When they returned to England, Speke rushed to take credit for finding the Nile source, disparaging Burton. Burton disputed his claim and Speke launched another expedition to Africa to prove it. The two became enemies, with the public siding with the more charismatic Burton. The day before they were to publicly debate, Speke shot himself.

The author also adds the story of one of the native expedition guides, without whom, she believes neither explorer would have come close to the headwaters of the Nile, or perhaps even survived.


Edward Truter & Martin Rudman

Fishing Stories For Africa

Fishing Stories For Africa: Stories From The First Ten Years Of The Fishing & Hunting Journal edited by Edward Truter & Martin Rudman (2014) There are 40 stories, set mostly in Africa, from 21 authors who share their fishing dreams and adventures. The pages are filled with stories set to entertain anyone with an interest in fish, fishing or the outdoor lifestyle. The author's father is Bruce Truter who wrote 'How Not To Hunt Pigs And Other Cautionary Tales Of Gun & Rod' and who started 'The Fishing & Hunting Journal'



It is always interesting to know which books you are buying. Here are some books bought recently from the Bookshelf ...

Bartle Bull

Safari: A Chronicle Of Adventure by Bartle Bull (1988) depicts both the hardships and the incongruous luxury of the classic safaris of the early 20th century and presents the legend of the great white hunter as seen by H Rider Haggard, Hemingway and Hollywood.
More books by Bartle Bull


Brian Herne

White Hunters: The Golden Age Of African Safaris

White Hunters: The Golden Age Of African Safaris by Brian Herne (1999) is the story of seventy years of African adventure, danger and romance. It re-creates the legendary big-game safaris led by Selous and Bell and the daring ventures of early hunters into unexplored territories and brings to life such figures as Cape-to-Cairo Grogan, who walked 4,000 miles and Dinesen's lover, Denys Finch Hattan. Brian Herne has written a virtual 'who's who' of professional hunters, crammed with the details of hundreds of hunts and the dozens of men who led them.
More books by Brian Herne

Jack O'Connor

Complete Book Of Rifles And Shotguns

Complete Book Of Rifles And Shotguns by Jack O'Connor (1961) is a unique book in that it contains not only the fundamentals of sighting, trigger control, shooting positions and shot placement but many more subjects as well, those which shooters often wonder about but seldom find in the printed word. With a seven lesson rifle shooting course.
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Elizabeth Watkins

Oscar From Africa: The Biography of O F Watkins

Oscar From Africa: The Biography of O F Watkins by Elizabeth Watkins (1995) is the author's tribute to her father, Oscar Ferris Watkins (1877 - 1943). He was a cavalry trooper in the Boer War in South Africa before going to East Africa and becoming commandant of the Carrier Corps in the East Africa Campaign in World War I. He became acting Kenya Chief Native Commissioner, Provincial Commissioner and the first editor of a Swahilli newspaper which gained the largest circulation of any paper in Africa. He strove to protect the interests of the African people and found himself on a collision course with the settlers and Lord Delamere and a Governor who was inclined to take their part. Oscar Watkins' wife, Olga Florence Watkins (1889 – 1947), was the daughter of big game hunter William Baillie-Grohman
More books by Elizabeth Watkins


Kevin Robertson

Africa's Most Dangerous

Africa's Most Dangerous by Kevin Robertson (2007) is solely about hunting the Cape or southern buffalo. The book discusses anatomical features, differences between bulls and cows in the field, distribution and natural history, favorite calibres, what constitutes a good trophy, when a buffalo should not be shot, the African tracker, bow hunting, selecting rifle sights, trophy evaluation, hunting accessories and more. He also gives his views and insights as to the suitability of the various bullet and rifle types.
More books by Kevin Robertson


Colin Willock

The New ABC Of Shooting

The New ABC Of Shooting: A Fully Revised And Updated Guide To Game And Rough Shooting, Pigeon Shooting, Wildfowling, Deer-stalking And Clay Pigeon Shooting by Colin Willock (1994) provides a concise and authoritative guide to all branches of the sport. It contains sections on game shooting, pigeon shooting, wildfowling, stalking, and clay shooting, including information on natural history and, where appropriate, rearing, preservation, plus essential advice about weapons and basic equipment, and an updated summary of the law as it effects shooters, 'The New ABC of Shooting' will prove invaluable to the beginner and expert alike.
More books by Colin Willock


Edward C Tabler

Trade And Travel In Early Barotseland

Trade And Travel In Early Barotseland: The Diaries Of George Westbeech 1885-1888 And Captain Norman Macleod 1875-1876 edited by Edward C Tabler (1963) provides amusing accounts of the life of trader George Westbeech, who, in his diary, described the culinary delights of baked elephant foot with Lea & Perrins sauce. The diary of Norman Macleod reveals his extraordinary hunting expedition to Barotseland and the Victoria Falls.
More books by Edward C Tabler



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