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

Peter Allison works as a safari guide in the Okavango Delta. In this oasis of wetland in the middle of the Kalahari desert, he caters to the whims of his wealthy clients. This work is filled with true tales of the people and animals he has encountered.

Fifty-five Years of big-game hunting in Sudan, Tanganyika, Zambia, Botwana, Ethiopia, Kenya, Cameroon and elsewhere in Africa.

Author's account of his four years as first senior warden of the Ethiopian National Parks and Nature Reserves, and advisor to the emperor, Haile Selassie.

Memoir of the author's time as game warden in Kenya and the Sudan at the close of British rule. A valuable piece of first-hand African history.

After twenty years in Africa, covered in the author's previous Banagi Hill and In Ethiopia, the author was recruited to work in the Himalayas. A demanding assignment of planning and developing national parks, to achieve a balance between the needs of local inhabitants and the preservation of habitats. Very different from Africa, Nepal's and Bhutan's extremes of scenery, climate, fauna and flora are brilliantly brought to life.

A well-written account of a life as a professional hunter in Zambia.

Tales of 27 years in the service of in the famous Kruger National Park make a gripping and entertaining read, abounding with encounters with elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard and rhino, whether darting for research, managing culling operations by helicopter or stalking on foot.

Chronicles the history of the great African adventure, from the exploits of Teddy Roosevelt and other privileged hunters to the innovative efforts of modern-day conservationists.

For anyone who is serious about learning the finer points of tanning. Gives background information on the necessary tools and equipment.

Robert Elman , the distinguished outdoor-life editor, has assembled an international team of experienced writers and photographers who have successfully interwoven technique, strategy, and woods-lore to create a truly comprehensive volume of immeasureable aid to both the novice and the veteran.

Just before 3am on January 24th, 1941, the body of Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was discovered lying on the floor of his Buick, at a road intersection some miles outside Nairobi, with a bullet in his head. A leading figure in Kenya's colonial community, he had recently been appointed Military Secretary, but he was primarily a seducer of other men's wives. Sir Henry Delves Broughton, whose wife was Erroll's current conquest, had an obvious motive for the murder, but no one was ever convicted and the question of who killed him became a classic mystery, a scandel and cause celebre. Among those who became fascinated with the Erroll case was Cyril Connolly. He joined up with James Fox for a major investigation of the case in 1969 for the SUNDAY TIMES magazine. After his death James Fox inherited the obsession and a commitment to continue in pursuit of the story both in England and Kenya in the late 1970s. One day, on a veranda overlooking the Indian Ocean, Fox came across a piece of evidence that seemed to bring all the fragments and pieces together and convinced him that he saw a complete picture.

This is an account of Bror Blixen's experiences as big-game hunter and safari leader in East Africa during the 1920s and '30s. Blixen was a larger-than-life settler and safari leader who many believe was Ernest Hemingway's model for the masculine heroes in his books. In letters to friends, Blixen gives us his perceptions of the breathtaking beauty of Africa at that time.

This book examines evidence ranging from protein analysis to studies of human bones that suggests that people-eating is a pervasive human signiature, running through our species since the dawn of time.

This is the story of Leakey's battle to save Kenya's wilflife , fighting against corrupt officials and bringing millions of dollars from international donors to help enforce a ban on the ivory trade.

Written with Virginia Morell. The story of Leakey's battle to save Kenya's wildlife, especially elephants.

A guide to outdoor emergencies and survival techniques in Southern Africa.

Tells of the historic, turbulent, and at times dangerous career of this fifth-generation South African, generally regarded as the first licensed professional hunter in southern Africa. Through evocative stories and hundreds of photos from Basie's personal collection, The Last Safari chronicles not only the life and times of one man but the many thrilling tales and colourful characters that made the southern swath of Africa the legendary hunting grounds they remain today.

A book detailing the life of African big game hunter George Michael. Contains many very dramatic action shots. Much on leopards and elephant hunting.

The magnificent saga of the Kenya-Uganda railway. On December 11, 1895, a young Englishman named George Whitehouse arrived at the east African post of Mombasa. His assignment was to perform an engineering miracle; the building of a railway from the coast to Lake Victoria in Uganda - a 600 mile route that was largely unmapped and barely explored.

A study of the history of the Nile River first started with The White Nile. Concerned with events in 1798 from Ethiopia through the Sudan and Egypt to the sea.

Explorers Burton and Speke set out in 1856 from Zanzibar into the dark interior where no white men had ever been before. This narrative makes a colourful setting. It is the most absorbing in human interest and the most exciting in historical incident that Moorehead has written.

This book, by a writer who knows and loves the African continent, describes the country, its animals and its peoples, from Johannesburg to Khartoum, in a way that brings vividly to life its strange enchantment.

A lengthy and detailed account of the frenzied peak of European conquest and colonization of the African continent between 1876 and 1912. It is a history of the period and one encounters such legendary people, places and events as David Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley, King Leopold II of Belgium and ruthless exploiter of the Congo, Charles Gordon and the Mahdi and Khartoum, Cecil Rhodes, Fashoda, Edmund Morel, Major-General Kitchener and his concentration camps, and the German near-extermination of Herero tribesman in German South-West Africa.

Thomas Pakenham has written a full-scale history of the war, based on first-hand and largely unpublished sources ranging from the private papers of the leading protagonists to the recollections of survivors from both sides.

His particular quarry is the rare, the giant, the very old, the extraordinary, or the simply beautiful, or those trees imbued with significance, written about by the great explorers of the past, or associated with magic, or folklore, or ritual.

Standing tall on the sunburned plains of Africa and Australia, baobabs may be the oldest life forms on the planet. Many of the specimens still standing today have been around for well over two thousand years. Tremendous in size and bizarre in appearance, they have provided food, medicine, and places of refuge and worship to countless peoples, even serving as prisons and tombs on occasion.

The search for the legendary mountain prison of the royal princes of Abyssinia. Illustrated with photos, drawings and maps.

The voices here speak of the verities of the hunt, our connections to the land, and the ethics of blood sport, with essays by the best writers in the field: Edward Abbey, Rick Bass, Tom Beck, Jimmy Carter, Jim Fergus, Barry Lopez, Peter Matthiessen, Tom McGuane, More...Richard K. Nelson, David Peterson and Terry Tempest Williams.

The writer and veteran outdoorsman David Petersen offers a thoroughly informed, unsettlingly honest, intensely personal exploration of this increasingly contentious issue. He draws clear distinctions between true hunting and contemporary hunter behavior, praising what's right about the former and damning what's wrong with the latter, as he seeks to render the terms hunter and antihunter palpable-to put faces on these much-used but little-understood generalizations.

Twenty-five years ago David Petersen and his wife, pulled up stakes, trading Laguna Beach, California, for a snug hand-built cabin in the wilderness. Today he knows that mountain land as intimately as anyone can know his home.

This book is for anyone concerned about the future of hunting. In simple but powerful text, it describes the ethical way to hunt, from preparation to shooting to care after the shot. Never before have so many issues, such as physical fitness, wounding, public and private lands, been linked together in an ethical context. If hunting is to survive, this book should be required reading for all hunters.

A comprehensive and entertaining survey of the exploration of Africa from its earliest days to the heyday of Livingstone, Burton et al.

Only recently has subsistence hunting ceased to be a necessity for most people, and sport hunting become the norm. During this same era, the majority of populations have crowded into cities where few people have firsthand experience with nature. As a result, hunters worldwide are no longer regarded as cultural heroes. Rather, they are increasingly viewed with suspicion and have become subjects of scrutiny, criticism and even attacked -- socially, politically and legally.Has sport hunting lost its relevance in our urban-oriented society? 'The Scared Art of Hunting' investigates worldwide hunting myths, legends and customs from throughout history to place hunting in a new and contemporary cultural context, a modern mythos.

The author argues that acknowledging the instinctual roots of the hunt is vital to repairing our modern alienation from nature and crucial to our understanding of our basic human needs.

Game Ranger, Special Force Soldier, Professional Hunter and Personal Security Officer - This is a collection of fascinating stories about a life of adventure spread across nearly four decades in Africa and culminating in Iraq.

This unique book is not the ordinary hunting guide telling you where to find the game animals, it's guide to the ideas, the history and the politics of hunting that shape today's debate. This is genuine, useful intellectual ammunition for hunting activists everywhere.

Autobiography of Harry C Wolhuter, the first game ranger of Kruger National Park in South Africa who served from 1902 to 1946 and earned renown for his August 1903 killing of a lion by knife.

More modern African hunting books....

• Modern African Hunting and 'Africana' Books Part I
• Modern African Hunting and 'Africana' Books Part II
• 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