Modern African hunting books include those written in the late 20th century about African trophy hunting, travel in Africa and general 'Africana'.

The different species of African antelope depicted in full colour on virtually every other page. Text by Wendell Swank and foreword by Anthony Dyer.

Stephen Smith was one of Africa's well-known professional hunters. Until his untimely death he was the editor of Rowland Ward's "Records of Big Game".

A superb and comprehensive field guide which covers the distribution of over 300 species and sub-species, plus the colouration, habitat, diet, weight, shoulder height, gestation period, birth details, maximum age, and horn or tusk measurement, and gives the track and a silhouette of each animal.

The author's experiences taking out clients from all over the world.

The author shares his most exciting experiences mainly with the African big five.

A veritable tour de force of big game hunting. Fashioned in the monumental style of sporting books which illuminated the genre at the turn of the century. This books speaks to today's hunter in a wonderfully entertaining style.

This book showcases the production of ivory wares from a full spectrum of countries through the ages. There is a focus on the rarity of ivory and the resulting social and political implications of its circulation. With a large array of contributors, this survey covers ivory production in the earliest civilizations, Rome and Eastern Europe, Africa, the far and near East, North and South America through to contemporary carvers. Further, there is attention paid to the collecting and care of ivory items.

Covers not only Roosevelt's love of hunting and conservation but his firearms. There is a particularly interesting section on the planning for his African trip and the American rifles he arranged for his great adventure.

Laddy's long career as one of the old-time professional East African hunters aided on many a safari by his wife Ada, also a fine hunter as well as photographer, linguist, and author

Comprehensive and beautifully illustrated practical companion for the hunter: where to aim depending on which way the animal is facing, advice on basic equipment and requirements, choice of trophies, appropriate rifles, game distribution maps, hunting tips and tactics, etc.

Giorgio Grasselli is a well-known professional hunter. But, as the author emphasises, this is not purely a hunting book, it is also the story of his life.

Edited by Brian Marsh. This is the story of three generations of Blackbeards who have hunted and guided in Botswana.

The biography of legendary hunter Werner von Alvensleben, a man without fear who also believed firmly in the value of wildlife and the wild places in modern life.

Former professional hunter, Brian Marsh, depicts an Africa which even today remains mysterious.

A Pioneering Hunter

Asian and North American sheep hunts, as well as his African safaris, along with bird hunting.

Detailed biography of Jack O'Connor derived from three years' work on O'Connor's papers and interviews with his family. The author "presents a picture of a man who could be cranky, egotistical and mean-spirited, but who loved his family and had a great zest for life".

A fictional chronicle of a man of the sporting world. This is a sophisticated, literate and very funny book, which everyone can enjoy, regardless if they are of the sporting mind or not.

Peter Hill Beard (born 1938) is a photographer, artist, diarist and writer.

Karen Blixen, aka Izak Dineson, made famous by her book "Out of Africa", lives again in these beautiful pages collected by Peter Beard from the writings and lyrical color paintings of her old major-domo, Kamante, who tells the story of Out of Africa from his own perspective. The handwritten text (done by his son) was translated from Swahili and is augmented not only by the art, but also by never beofre published photographs taken by Isak Deneson herself and still other photos by Beard.

Eleven irresistible tales, told to his daughter in his tented encampment at Hog Ranch, Kenya, about life, about living, about Africa.

On the widespread destruction of the African elephant, Beard tells of the enterprisers, explorers, missionaries and big-game hunters whose quest for progress and adventure were to change the face of Africa forever.

The photographer takes us on a trip to Kaokoland, Namibia, to the Himba - a semi-nomadic tribe of herdsmen. To the mountain village of Heyza, Tanzania, and to the Cape Verde Islands

A poignant collection of photographs and pages from the artist's famous diaries.

Photographs by Peter Beard. A classic work in which Kenyan zoologist Alistair Graham spent 3 years with Kenya's Turkana tribesmen who lived alongside and hunted the legendary and fearsome man-eating Nile crocodiles.

A showcase of some of Beard's most stunning creations. Focused largely on themes of conservation and animal endangerment, and intertwined with fragments from his life and work in these arenas, this volume is an unconventional art photographer's declaration of love for the African continent he calls home.

Photographs, mixed-media works, diaries and text by Peter Beard.

Thirty-two collaged photographic works are illustrated here, featuring Beard's typical cadre of subjects: Andy Warhol, Veruschka, Brigitte Bardot, Francis Bacon, Jackie O, exotic African animals and locales.

This compendium of Peter Beard's portraiture is compiled as a scrapbook; photographs become collages, framed and overlaid with Beard's handwritten notes, newspaper clippings, found objects, and paint.

This book is a journal of Beard's life and work and he pours everything into it - his thoughts, his soul and, literally, his blood, which is smeared across the pages. He includes photographs, drawings, scribblings, collages, details about his friends and associates and writings on some of his passions.

A stunning journey into the world of Peter Beard.

"We're entering the age of density and stress from overcrowding and squeezing".

Part biography, part social history. Beard's dramatic life has been matched by the drama that have been transforming East Africa since his arrival.

"Hunting Africa on Your Own Without a Professional Hunter". As the preface makes clear, this does not mean the author hunted alone, but rather he organized the guides and helpers for himself.

Sten Cedergren set out to become a cowboy at an early age; first stop, Paraguay. After further roaming, he landed in Kenya and joined White Hunters Ltd, in addition to doing elephant control work. Today in his early eighties, he is still hunting elephant in Zimbabwe.

1200 biographies on the most prominent hunters,explorers and adventurers of Africa.

This book is a lively account of the most remarkable and fascinating of land predators, the world's hunting cats.

A well written natural history of the evolutuon, history and current plight of the elephant, and the conservation efforts which are ongoing to try to protect these magnificient animals.

26 colour illustrations of shooting 'pay lines' (shot placements) and stalking recommendations. In addition to big game hunting stories, the author recounts his real life war stories during the long bush war that raged in Rhodesia. Each chapter contains sections on: choice of weapons, methods of location, tracking, trophy judgement, the approach, etc. A must for anyone planning to hunt Africa for the first time or for the returning hunter. A book hunters will read and reread

This book presents the techniques used to hunt African leopard. It has stories of many great hunts and a large section of what to do when things don't go quite right. Highly recommended.

Informative and scientifically accurate, Hall-Martin's fascinating text looks at the existence of the elephant in many different areas of Africa. It clearly puts the case for the preservation and proper management of the earth's complex ecosystems and faces all the pertinent issues of elephant biology and conservation.

The niece of Ernest Hemingway retells her father's stories about his famous brother which she discovered on audio cassettes after his death.

A richly illustrated collection of stories about Ernest Hemingway and his love affair with Cuba as narrated by his niece Hilary Hemingway, featuring unpublished photographs and never before seen material. Hilary Hemingway gives new insight into her uncle's life in Cuba, relating tales of his renowned passion for big game fishing, the women who competed for his affection, and the people who came to inhabit novels

The grandson of the legendary Ernest Hemingway and the son of Hemingway black sheep Gregory, John Hemingway offers his heartbreaking memoir of growing up in the tempestuous family. "Strange Tribe" tells the story of John's father and his improbable attempts to live up the Ernest's macho reputation.

A professional hunter starts out his career with very little money, a new rifle, and two young trackers. At the end of his career he has no money, an old rifle, and two old trackers. But what adventures they enjoyed in the interim. From Missouri's woods to Africa, George Hoffman made that trip 25 years ago and he's been hunting professionally ever since. Not only has he hunted all the game under the African sun, but he is the developer of the Hoffman .416 rifle caliber - the same used by Blunt, Dyer, Selby, Lawrence and even John Taylor!

David Drummond, 'Bwana Drum' as he was known, was twenty when he was transferred to the Kenya Police Special Branch. Within a few months he was leading an intelligence network in an area where ninety-five per cent of the Kikuyu in revolt were fanatical Mau Mau supporters. Drummond's first major opponent was the notorious General Harun Njeroge, who launched a personal vendetta and sent Bwana Drum grim warnings in a series of horrible letters. In order to outwit the terrorist general, Drummond formed a gang from the Mau Mau he captured and converted; they became one of the famous pseudo-terorist bands which finally broke the Mau Mau hard core and ended the Emergency.

True story of Frank Woodley's fight against the poachers and the coastal ivory ring, whose members - crooked dealers, ivory craftsman, middlemen, and agents - made a rich living off the corpses of thousands of elephants.

In the 1930's a young English anthropologist did valuable pioneer work among the Temiar, an aborigine tribe in the deep jungle(ulu) of northern Malaya, and explored and mapped large areas of their territory.

The story of a remarkable man, Bill Woodley - Kenya's legendary Game Warden who knew virtually every professional hunter and poacher and revolutionized Kenya's National Parks. A story of excitement, action, high adventure and humour.

Eric Rundgren, a booming, boisterous, quick-tempered second-generation white hunter of Swedish extraction who reached the height of his volcanic career in 1958. A man of undisputed hunting prowess, he first worked for the Kenya Game Department, for whom he shot buffalo, elephant and lion, and later for Ker & Downey Safaris, eventually relocating his operations to Botswana.

An incredible account of elephant hunters/poachers in Kenya and the role played by the legendary Game Warden, Bill Woodley, to supress the poaching. The author was able to penetrate inside the poaching syndicate with the help of Bill Woodley's intelligence team and collect important details of their activities.

As a client hunter, pioneer hunter, and professional hunter, Bert Klineburger is, without a doubt, the world’s preeminent international hunter. This is Klineburger's latest book on all the fabulous and exotic hunting areas now available to the international hunter.

The author's experiences as a big game hunter around the world, hunting the big game of Africa, India, Alaska, South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. There is a chapter on selecting the right clothing, footwear and equipment, also a chapter on the skinning and care of trophies.

Here are stories from around the world about the places hunters have been going, are going and will be going. And each story is illustrated with pictures of trophies taken by Klineburger and other wellknown international big game hunters.

More modern African hunting books....

• Modern African Hunting and 'Africana' Books Part I
• Modern African Hunting and 'Africana' Books Part III
• Modern African Hunting and 'Africana' Books Part IV
• Modern African Hunting and 'Africana' Books Part V
• Modern African Hunting and 'Africana' Books Part VI
• Modern African Hunting and 'Africana' Books Part VII
• Modern African Hunting and 'Africana' Books Part VIII