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Sheep Hunting Books

Sheep hunting books - not strictly African hunting but the intrepid sheep and mountain hunters of the world might enjoy these books.

Alaska Professional Hunters Association

Hunting The Land Of The Midnight Sun by Alaska Professional Hunters Association (2005) is a unique book containing 37 stories from dozen of members of the famous Alaska Professional Hunters Association.

Robert M Anderson

Great Rams And Ram Hunters by Robert Anderson (1994). North American sheep hunters relate their stories for Dall, Stone, Bighorn and Desert Sheep.

John Lomonaco: A Hunting Lifetime by Robert Anderson (2007). Lomonaco hunted all over the world and shot a lot but in the book he only describes what he really cared for the most - waterfowl, sheep, wild goats, bear, deer and elk during his 40-year hunting career.

Great Rams And Great Ram Hunters II by Robert M Anderson (2008) is an excellent mix of previously untouched historical topics and contemporary sheep subjects sure to be of interest to sheep enthusiasts everywhere. Then there is the author's real forte, 293 photographs, many never before seen, with the detailed and elaborate captions sheep hunters have come to expect from Anderson.

Roy Chapman Andrews

Roy Chapman Andrews (1884 - 1960) was an American explorer, adventurer and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He is primarily known for leading a series of expeditions through China into the Gobi Desert and Mongolia. The expeditions made important discoveries and brought the first-known fossil dinosaur eggs to the museum.

Camps And Trails In China: A Narrative Of Exploration, Adventure And Sport In Little-Known China by Roy Chapman Andrews (1918) written with Yvette Borup Andrews. This a narrative of exploration, adventure and sport in little-known China. Monkey and tiger hunting in Yunnan province in southwestern China. The couple witnessed some exciting political activity as well.

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Harry Auer

Campfires In The Yukon by Harry Auer (1916) is an account of the author's experiences hunting big game in the St Elias Range in the Yukon around the turn of the last century. Maps of the hunting routes included at the rear.

W A Baillie Grohan

Fifteen Years' Sport And Life In The Hunting Grounds Of Western America And British Columbia by W A Baillie Grohan (1900) covers North American game - bighorn, elk, goat, deer, moose and more. One of the finest North American hunting titles.

Peter Barrett

Great True Hunts by Peter Barrett (1967). From Mozambique to Mexico; from the great Hindu Kush to the Middle East, the Sahara, Alaska - wherever the world's big game is sought come these adventures with hunters and famous men, including the Shah of Iran, Tito of Yugoslavia, King Paul of Greece, Roy Rogers, Prince Bernhard, Kirk Douglas and Joe Foss. Polar bear, red sheep, tuskers, big cats, Marco polo sheep and more.

John H Batten

Skyline Pursuits by John H Batten (1981). Hunting the world's mountains mainly for sheep - from the Yukon to Ovis Poli in the Pamirs and the big rams of the Altai.

The Forest And The Plain by John H Batten (1984). The author was a renowned mountain sheep and big game hunter over a span of fifty years. This book recounts his pursuit of big of big game in the forests of North America (moose, whitetail deer, caribou and elk), Europe (Red, Fallow and Roe deer), the plains of Africa (kudu, sable, and gazelle) and India.

The Best Of Sheep Hunting edited by John Batten (1990) contain stories by the who's who of sheep hunting from around the world, including but not limited to, Theodore and Kermit Roosevelt, Hornaday, O'Connor, Philips, Highton, Gates, Jamsheed, Kennion, Adair and more.

T Bentham

An Illustrated Catalogue Of The Asiatic Horns And Antlers In The Collection Of The Indian Museum by T Bentham (1908) includes photos with descriptions of location where horns of Marco Polo and other wild sheep and goats, ibex, markhor, goral, takin, antelope, chiru, Tibetan gazelle, shou, Kashmir stag, Altai wapiti were obtained.

Charles Boner

Chamois Hunting In The Mountains Of Bavaria And The Tyrol by Charles Boner (1860)

Gerald Burrard

Big Game Hunting In The Himalayas And Tibet by Gerald Burrard (1925) is a comprehensive work on big game shooting in the region, including advice on both stalking and still hunting. Each chapter combines the natural history of the game, the terrain where it will be encountered, and the author's own sporting adventures.

Douglas Carruthers

Alexander Douglas Mitchell Carruthers (1882 - 1962) was a British explorer and naturalist. He wrote many books and collected many specimens, some of which are still the only samples of those species in the British Museum.

Beyond The Caspian: A Naturalist In Central Asia by Douglas Carruthers (1949) tells of his travels and hunting experiences over several years in the great deserts and mountain ranges of Russian Central Asia and particularly of the animals and birds of which he was in search, many of which proved new to science. Carruthers hunted for a prolonged period of time in Central Asia and not only shot many sheep but also discovered a new subspecies of sheep (Kara Tau argali) for which he never got any credit.

Unknown Mongolia: A Record Of Travel And Exploration In North-Western Mongolia And Dzungaria by Douglas Carruthers (1913) gives an interesting account of shooting in the mountains and on the plains, principally ibex, antelope, wild sheep, wild ass and a fleeting mention of tigers.

Douglas Chadwick

A Beast The Color Of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed by Douglas Chadwick (2002) is the first full-length book on the mountain goat offers a superbly written portrait of its life, habits and environment. Douglas Chadwick tracked mountain goat herds for seven years and his observations are richly textured and replete with fascinating and dramatic details.

Percy William Palmer Church

Chinese Turkestan: With Caravan And Rifle by Percy Church (1901). In this book the author pursues maral (Asian elk), ibex and Siberian roe.

Ralph Cobbold

Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Patteson Cobbold DSO (1869 - 1965) served in the 60th Rifles in India. He was the first westerner to hunt and photograph the Ovis Poli or Marco Polo Sheep.

Innermost Asia: Travel And Sport In The Pamirs by Ralph Cobbold (1900) is an early glimpse at the mysterious and magestic Pamirs by a westerner.

Henry Darrah

Henry Zouch Darrah (1854 - 1909) served in India as director of land records and agriculture and was the author of several books about Assam.

Sport In The Highlands Of Kashmir: Being A Narrative Of An Eight Months' Trip In Baltistan And Ladak, And A Lady's Experiences In The Latter Country, Together With Hints For The Guidance Of Sportsmen by Henry Darrah (1898). The author stalked markhor, red bear and ibex. After collecting numerous ibex, he moved to Sangtha where he hunted Ovis ammon, then on to Pobrang after burhel. In the Changchenmo Valley, he bagged yak, antelope and goa. His expedition continued to Leh where he collected urial and burhel. By mid-autumn, he hunted the grounds near Srinagar, bagging barasingh, bear and markhor.

Tom Davis

From The Tundra To Texas: The Art Of Ken Carlson by Tom Davis (1994). Included with this artist proof is a corresponding signed and numbered limited edition print of Dall Rams titled 'Pearls on the Mountain'.

Elim Demidoff

Elim Pavlovich Demidoff, 3rd Prince de San Donato (1868 - 1943) was a member of an influential and wealthy Russian family.

After Wild Sheep In The Altai And Mongolia by Elim Demidoff (1900) is an account of the author's 1899 trips to Central Asia to hunt Ovis Ammon, the largest of all wild sheep and other exotic mountain game.

Hunting Trips In The Caucasus by Elim Demidoff (1898) is a must for the wild sheep enthusiast. The faithful account of three shooting trips, to three different parts of the Caucasus. The Kouban district to the NW of the Larger Laba river, towards the Russo-Persian Frontier betwen the Ararats ad Ordoubad along the famous valley of the Araxes, the last to the Kouban district-this time to the SE of the Great Laba. The author visited the area several times, specifically selecting these three trips for they were accomplished in districts richest in game.

A Shooting Trip To Kamchatka by Elim Demidoff (1904)

Clarence Edgar Edwords

Campfires Of A Naturalist: The Story Of Fourteen Expeditions After North American Mammals by Clarence Edwords (1893) covers travels to North America for its game. In the western US for antelope and deer, in the Rockies for sheep, goat and moose.

Thomas Esmonde

Hunting Memories Of Many Lands by Thomas Esmonde (1920). Hunting sheep, moose, caribou, red deer, bear and deer. These hunts take place in Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Romania and the US.

More Hunting Memories by Thomas Esmonde (1930) has a lot on angling in North America, some in Ireland and also buffalo hunting.

Valerius Geist

Mountain Sheep And Man In The Northern Wilds by Valerius Geist (2002). The author looks critically at the role of early and modern man as hunter and tells delightful stories about his own adventures in working with big-game animals. His splendid photographs capture his enthusiasm for the land and the sheep.

Mountain Sheep: A Study In Behaviour And Evolution by Valerius Geist (1972)

Wild Sheep Country by Valerius Geist (1993)

Duncan Gilchrist

Quest For Giant Bighorns by Duncan Gilchrist (1994)

Montana Land Of Giant Rams by Duncan Gilchrist (1990). The author was a well known big game hunting and guide and his works have become standards both as reference and for big game hunters. This was one of his most popular books.

Hunt High: For Rocky Mountain Goats, Bighorn Sheep, Chamois And Tahr by Duncan Gilchrist (1991)

Hossein Golabchi

Obsessed! Hunting Mountain Game In North America, Asia And Around The World by Hossein Golabchi (2008). There is no person who has hunted in the Pamirs for Marco Polo more than the author. Besides having numerous poli over 60 inches, he has hunted sheep in just about every conceivable place on earth, and he holds a number of world records as well as numerous top-ten heads. He has over 100 wild sheep hunts to his name. Whether it is the North American Grand Slam of Sheep, the huge argali rams of Central Asia, or the urials of his native Iran, Soudy has hunted them all, plus some, including most ibex and chamois. A phenomenal story of a single-minded obsession that has taken the author more than four decades to fulfill.

William Hornaday

William Temple Hornaday (1854 - 1937) was an American hunter, taxidermist, zoo director, author and conservationist.

Camp-Fires On Desert And Lava by William Hornaday (1908) is an account of the author's desert sheep hunting trips into Mexico. A desert sheep classic by any standard.

Camp-Fires In The Canadian Rockies by William Hornaday (1906). Hunting for mountain goat, grizzlies, deer and adventure in the Rockies.

Bob Housholder

Grand Slam Of North American Wild Sheep by Bob Housholder (1974) is a series of accounts and experiences on hunting for the North American sheep. Contains stories from noted sheep hunters along with their photos and descriptions of their hunting efforts. A must for the sheep hunting enthusiasts.

Lady Minna Jenkins

Sport And Travel In Both Tibets by Lady Minna Jenkins (1909). The author was one of the only Edwardian-era women who embarked on her own hunting expeditions. Animals hunted include blue sheep, Tibetan argali, gazelles, urial, barrasingha, ibex and markhor.

Alexander Kinloch

Alexander Angus Airlie Kinloch (1838 - 1919) served in the British army in India.

Large Game Shooting In Thibet, The Himalayas, Northern And Central India by Alexander Kinloch (1885) describes his many hunting adventures together with accounts of the habits and haunts of the game involved. Includes much on the sheep, markhor and ibex.

Travel, Exploration And Sports In Himalayas: Tales Of Large Game Shooting by Alexander Kinloch (1885) is the revised edition of two volumes 'Large Game Shooting in Tibet and the North-West' and had been the complete guide book for sportsmen, researchers, scholars, wildlife lovers and for all those interested in travels and exploration of nature. The book should also serve a guide book for the preservation of nature, history and specimens.

Robert Lee

China Safari: An American Explorer In The Forbidden Pamirs by Robert Lee (1988) is an account of Lee's memorable hunt for Marco Polo (and other) sheep before the country actually opened to hunting. A great picture of the rewards and hardships of hunting sheep in China.

Jose Madrazo

Ovis Ammon: The Argali Trail by Jose Madrazo (2009). Madrazo has devoted his hunting career to the greatest sheep of them all, the Ovis ammon or argali. Pepe began his quest for Marco Polo sheep with a hunt in Tajikistan and since then he has taken multiple trips in his search for different argali, the kings of all sheep that have the longest horns, the most mass, and live at the highest altitudes. In the far reaches of China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, he met furious snowstorms, non-functioning planes and other hard-to-endure conditions in his search for the Ovis ammon. The book is written as honestly as it happened and both failure and success are recorded.

Joanne Mattern

The Bighorn Sheep by Joanne Mattern (2006) describes the physical characteristics, behaviour and life cycle of the bighorn sheep.

C J McElroy

McElroy Hunts Mountain Game by C J McElroy (2001). The Grand Slam of North American wild sheep, the super slam of the world's wild sheep, markhor in Pakistan, ibex on several continents plus mountain game in Europe, South America and Africa.

Donald Macintyre

Major General Donald Macintyre VC (1831 - 1903) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross when serving in the British army in India.

Hindu-Koh: Wanderings And Wild Sport On And Beyond The Himalayas (1853-1854) by Donald Macintyre (1899). Reminiscences of travel and shooting in northern India and the borders of Tibet in the nineteenth century. Bears, wild sheep, Ammon rams, antelope, tigers, fishing for mahseer, tahr, musk deer, ibex, leopards, wolves, sand grouse, wild geese, elephants and lots more. Many interesting observations of the peoples and tribes of the region. A fascinating read, packed with interest and incident.

Thomas McIntyre

Wild And Fair: Tales Of Hunting Big Game In North America by Thomas McIntyre (2008). These original stories cover all North American big game from moose and bear in Alaska to sheep and mule deer in the Lower 48. It even contains a hunt for muskox.

Ricardo Medem

Persia: Safari On The Summits by Ricardo Medem (1987) covers two very long safaris to Iran for virtually every game animal offered in the country. This Weatherby Award winner is a noted mountain game hunter and his stories are very interesting.

Argali: High Mountain Hunting by Ricardo Medem (1994) describes expeditions to Afghanistan, the Italian Alps, Nepal, Mongolia, North America, Pakistan and Kazakhstan in pursuit of sheep and other mountain game.

Richard Mitchell and Mike Frisina

From The Himalayas To The Rockies - Retracing The Great Arc Of Wild Sheep by Richard Mitchell and Mike Frisina (2007) is an overview of the wild sheep of the world as well as stories by such famous sheep hunters as Jack Atcheson, Hubert Thummler, Duncan Gilchrist and others.

Gale Monson and Lowell Sumner

The Desert Bighorn: Its Life History, Ecology And Management by Gale Monson and Lowell Sumner (1980). There is quite simply nothing else around that can tell you anywhere near as much about desert sheep, by anywhere near so distinguished a crew of authors.

William Morden

Across Asia's Snows And Deserts by William Morden (1928) describes a sporting expedition in 1926 which covers Srinagar, Gilgit, Kashgar, Siberia and Peking. Morden's account of an expedition undertaken with James Lippitt Clark to Asia to collect specimens for the American Museum of Natural History. They searched for Marco Polo sheep (Ovis poli), hunted roe, gazelle and ibex in the Tian Shan. The expedition travelled along the Mongolian border and were captured, imprisoned, tortured and then released, finally making their way into Siberia and ending their journey in China.

Clive Nicol

From The Roof Of Africa by Clive Nicol (1972). The author was hired by the Imperial Ethiopian government to set up a Park in the Simien Highlands to protect the wali ibex in that region.

Dermot Norris

Kashmir The Switzerland Of India by Dermot Norris (1943) 'A Descriptive Guide with Chapters on Ski-ing and Mountaineering, Large and Small Game Shooting, Fishing etc.' This is one of the few guides to list all mountain game hunted in Kashmir - sheep, ibex, markhor and bear.

John Nicholas Price Wood

Travel And Sport In Turkestan by Capt. J N Price Wood (1910). Journeying throughout highest Asia with the usual sporting detours - sheep, ibex, bears, roe deer, wapiti and ovis poli.

Charles Radclyffe

Big Game Shooting In Alaska by Charles Radclyffe (1904) is a must for the sheep and bear hunter. Excellent work and deservedly a sought after title. One of the rarest North American hunting books. Radclyffe was issued a permit by the Bureau of Biological Survey USA, to collect big game species in Alaska for the British Museum.

Jim Rikhoff

Taking Your Chances In The High Country by Jim Rikhoff (1994) are stories of hunting sheep and goat by Batten, O'Connor, Sheldon, Browne, Annabel, Bond, Russell, Andrews, Wallace, Young, Gilchrist, Morden, Roosevelt, Elliott, Hornaday, Gates, Popham, Lee and others.

Theodore Roosevelt

East Of The Sun And West Of The Moon by Theodore Roosevelt (1926) is an account of a hunting expedition by Theodore Roosevelt's two son to the Pamirs, Turkestan and the Tien Shan Mountains in Central Asia in search of big game. Includes the story of the then world-record Ovis karelini and Tien Shan ibex.

L B Rundall

Lionel Bickersteth Rundall (1890 - 1914) was killed while serving with the 1st Gurkha Rifles, just one day before his brother was killed in the First World War.

The Ibex Of Sha-Ping And Other Himalayan Studies by L B Rundall (1915) describes his travels in the Himalayas and tells of ibex and bear hunting.

Charles Sheldon

The Wilderness Of The Upper Yukon: A Hunter's Explorations For Wild Sheep In Sub-Arctic Mountains by Charles Sheldon (1913) is a record of field experiences while author was studying the colour variations of the wild sheep of Yukon Territory from point of view of a hunter interested in natural history. Most parts of the Territory are also the favourite abodes of moose and grizzly bears, and sometime caribou, black bear below timber-line, white goats who live exclusively in the humid belt of the Coast ranges. In the North, wild sheep dwell exclusively on high mountains, above timber-line, usually well back within the ranges.

William Sheldon

Exploring For Wild Sheep In British Columbia In 1931 And 1932 by William Sheldon (1981)

C H Stockley

Shikar: Being Tales Told By A Sportsman In India by C H Stockley (1928). Hunting markhor, gooral, tahr, sambur, tsine, ibex, stag, bear, burhel and other game in northern India, with a chapter on hunting kudu in Somaliland in Africa.

Stalking In The Himalayas And Northern India by C H Stockley (1936) is a meticulous compendium of photographic travelling, camping equipment and expedition arrangements both in the mountains and the plains of India. The stalking whether it climaxes in a shot or a picture is the crux of this instructive book written in lucid and entertaining style. The illustrations have been updated with sketches and photographs while retaining the earlier context and selections. A book of wilderness sport for adventure in the new century.

Ella and Percy Sykes

Through Deserts And Oases Of Central Asia by Ella and Percy Sykes (1920). The journeys were from Tashkent to Khotan via Khokand, Kashgar and Yarkand with lengthy detours from Kashgar. Miss Sykes, sister of Percy Sykes and co-author, was the first woman to cross the dangerous passes to and from the Pamirs and, apart from Mrs Littledale, was the first European woman to visit Kashgar. Sir Percy Sykes was acting Consul in Kashgar for nine months in 1915 whilst Sir George Macartney was on leave. The first part of the book, written by Ella, deals with their journey around Chinese Turkestan, crossing the Tien Shan by the Terek Pass. The second part was by Sir Percy and describes the geography, history and customs of the people of Kashgar and the Pamirs.

Dale Toweill

Return Of Royalty: Wild Sheep Of North America by Dale Toweill (1999). Although written by professional wildlife biologists, this book is non-technical and is intended for a diverse audience of conservationists, photographers, sportsmen and everyone who enjoys wild sheep.

G Tsukamoto

Hunting The Desert Ram by G Tsukamoto (1983) is a pamphlet printed by the Nevada Dept of Wildlife. Technical brochure that would be of interest if you were going to hunt desert bighorn sheep in that state.

Raul Valdez

The Wild Sheep Of The World by Raul Valdez (1982). Foreword by John Batten. A scholarly and informative work by Dr Valdez and a must for the game biologist and wild sheep enthusiast.

Hans Von Koenigsmarck

Count Hans Adolf Erwein Max Von Koenigsmarck (b.1865) was a German army officer who wrote about the markhor in the Hirpora reserve of Kashmir.

The Markhor: Sport In Cashmere by Hans Von Koenigsmarck (1910)

Harold Wallace

The Big Game Of Central And Western China: Being An Account Of A Journey From Shanghai To London Overland Across The Gobi Desert by Harold Wallace (1913) is a heavily photo-illustrated account of hunting, taking wild sheep, white-maned serow, roe deer and wapiti in Northern China and the southern reaches of the Gobi.

Hugh Whistler

In The High Himalayas by Hugh Whistler (1924). The author visited Lahul, Spiti and Ladakh where he made notes on the region and his hunting. He pursued Himalayan ibex and blue sheep with good success. A worthwhile book with a good description of the areas and game hunted.

Jack Wilson

The Quest For Dall Sheep by Jack Wilson (1999). These stories, including that of the World Record Dall sheep taken by Harry L Swank Jr, are written with Jack's honest and classic style. The book relates progress in Alaska, from mineral exploration to outlaw guides, along with a smattering of hunting advice and humour. It is required reading for those wishing to know and understand the rich history of Alaska.

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