Women hunters books include not only accounts of hunting adventures but books about women who have led extraordinary lives travelling in Africa, India and elsewhere.

Fascinating historical accounts of women travellers and adventurers from around the world.

Delia, Carl Akeley’s first wife, recounts her numerous adventures with her husband hunting elephant in Uganda, crocodiles on the Tana River, and her tortuous experience rescuing Carl after he was pinned by an elephant

Rather scarce book with many photos of J T with his African friends.

Covers Akeley's work in producing museum exhibits of animals and his travels in Africa collecting specimens. This is the book in which Akeley's struggle with a leopard is described - he choked it to death and the picture of the wounded Akeley with the dead leopard is the frontispiece to the book.

A comprehensive portrayal of the historical background and scientific aspects of the great game sanctuaries of the Belgian Congo with the story of a six months pilgrimage throughout that most primitive region in the heart of the African continent.

A true story of a 10 yr old boy who travelled with the writer during an expedition in the Congo, Uganda and Tangyanika. Included is information on the Watusi and other tribes.

A first-person account of the author's work in Africa during the 1920's and 1930's.

The account of the Akeley-Eastman-Pomeroy Arica Hall Expedition of the American Museum of Natural History.

Alexander was determined to retrace the steps of the journey made by Kingsley in 1895 which Kingsley chronicled in her best-selling book 'Travels in West Africa'. In many ways, the territory covered by Kingsley and Alexander has seen little change in 100 years. From Libreville, Gabon's capital, on the Atlantic coast, Alexander followed Kingsley's trail, encountering the same mud-hut villages, the same stretches of waterway, rain forest and empty savannah.

The only thoroughly documented amazons in world history are the women warriors of Dahomy, an eighteenth and nineteenth century Western African kingdom. Once dubbed a small black Sparta, residents of Dahomy shared with the Spartans an intense militarism and sense of collectivism. Moreover, the women of both kingdoms prided themselves on bodies hardened from childhood by rigorous physical exercise. But Spartan women kept in shape to breed male warriors, Dahomean amazons to kill them. Originally a praetorian guard, the Dahomeans developed into a force 6,000 strong and were granted semi-sacred status. They lusted for battle, fighting with fury and valour until the kingdom's final defeat by France in 1892.

Horses and hunting.

A very good copy of this colonial sporting work written from a woman's perspective.

An account of the author's experiences on a coffee-farm in Kenya.

Isak Dinesen takes up the absorbing story of her life in Kenya begun in the unforgettable Out of Africa, which she published under the name of Karen Blixen. With warmth and humanity these four stories illuminate her love both for the African people, their dignity and traditions, and for the beauty and wildness of the landscape. The first three were written in the 1950s and the last, 'Echoes from the Hills', was written especially for this volume in the summer of 1960 when the author was in her seventies. In all, they provide a moving final chapter to her African reminiscences.

The author married the boss of the biggest food company in America, in 1925, subsequently joining him on his sporting expeditions in search of a wide variety of quarry. A woman who can shoot straight, grin when she misses, go head over heels down the rapids and bewail only the lost steelhead has proved that sport is by no means only a man's world. Gamebirds, waterfowl, flyfishing, walrus shooting in the Arctic, brown bears in Alaska, polar bears and much else besides.

Life in Tanganyika. Includes considerable hunting, especially chapters 'My First Lion', 'Christmas on Safari' and 'Still on Safari'.

Classic biographical children's book about (and illustrated by) Alice Sheldon who would later write as the groundbreaking science fiction writer James Tiptree Jr. Much of her childhood was spent in Africa on Safari with the famed naturalist Carl Akeley.

A rare chance to own one of the earliest Alice B Sheldon (aka James Tiptree Jr.) items, namely, as the lead character in a book written by the famous Science Fiction author's mother and inspired by the family's long visits to Africa and Asia. The illustrations are by Alice.

Mary Hastings Bradley records the events of a 1921 safari with her husband, Herbert Bradley, five-year-old daughter, and her friend, the renowned sculptor and taxidermist Carl Akeley. Akeley was searching for gorilla specimens for the African Hall he was in the process of redesigning for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. Well into the twentieth century, this largest of primates was more a figure of myth than of natural history.

This book is about the safaris to Africa the author took with her husband.

The author wrote two books on her and her husband's African big game hunting. Here she's after a tiger and gets one in Sumatra.

In 1893, Mary Kingsley arrived in West Africa in her high necked shirt, long skirt, and proper Victorian boots. She proceeded to embark on an astonishing journey of discovery. She met giant flying insects, crocodiles, hippos. She endured the brutal heat and serious hardships of equatorial Africa and thrived.

Fascinating description of old-time settler life in the Kenya of the 20's.

Campbell-Martin's experiences of life in India before and after the second world war.

The product of many years' research, this is the largely untold story of women and big game hunting. Contains an extensive bibliography.

Juanita Carberry grew up on a coffee farm in the Kenya of the 20's and 30's, the White Mischief era. At fifteen Juanita became involved in the Lord Erroll affair: she is the only person to whom Delves Broughton confessed to the murder of Lord Erroll.

Chapters on angling, stalking, duck shooting, black-game etc in the Scottish Highlands.

Hunting African big game including elephant, rhino, lion, leopard, others in the golden days of hunting in Tanganyika.

Detailing specific time periods, regions hunted (Africa, Alaska, The Plains) and individual women, Kenneth Czech explores the interesting women who hunted a variety of big game animals around the world.

Interesting descriptions of places and peoples including Tierra del Fuego, Hawaii, Japan by Lady Brassey on the Sunbeam in 1876, also the travels of Mrs. Trollope, Miss Isabella Bird in America and her descriptions, Florence and Rosamond Hill, Lady Barker in New Zealand, Lady Hester Stanhope and more.

This book presents an intimate look at the extraordinary life of one of the world's most fascinating women, and an informal history of the princely states of India from the height of the Princes' power to their present state.

A charming account of growing up in Matabeleland in the early 1900s and of her life with animals.

Lady Florence (1857-1905) was the daughter of the Marquis of Queensbury and went to South Africa as the first official war correspondent, covering the Boer War for the Morning Post. She spent most of her time astride a horse hunting rather than reporting the war and the text reflects her interest in sport and exotic meals.

When asked in 1879 why she wanted to travel to such an outlandish place as Patagonia, the author replied without hesitation that she was taking to the saddle in order to flee from the strict confines of polite Victorian society. "Palled with civilization and its surroundings, I wanted to escape to some place where I might be as far removed from them as possible. A longing grows up within one to taste a more vigorous emotion than that afforded.

A utopian reform novel dealing with women's rights, as well as the unification of England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales in an Imperial Federation. The author, daughter of the Marquess of Queensberry and aunt of Lord Alfred Douglas, achieved fame of her own as a travel writer, war correspondent, novelist, suffragette and radical reformer.

This new analysis of Out of Africa describes the young Baroness Blixen's struggles with a difficult marriage, a pioneer coffee farm, and a complicated love affair in Kenya.

Sylvia Brooke (1885-1971), better known as the Ranee of Sarawak, was the wife, consort, and by custom, slave of Sir Vyner Brooke, the last White Rajah of the jungle kingdom of Sarawak on the island of Borneo. The nation had its own flag, revenue, postage stamps, and money, and for three generations the White Rajahs had held the power of life and death over their subjects. By the 1930s there was a sharp decline in their power and prestige, and at the center of it all stood Ranee Sylvia. Author of eleven books, an extravagantly-dressed socialite and incorrigible self-dramatist, the Ranee was described by the press as 'that most charming of despots' and by her own brother as 'a female Iago'. With a supporting cast including her father, a celebrated courtier in love with his own son, and her whimsical husband, this is the fascinating account of the extraordinary and often malevolent life of Ranne Sylvia.

Eden was a sister of George, Lord Ackland, Governor-General of India from 1835 to 1842. Hers is a thoroughly un-Victorian approach, with none of the earnestness and arrogance which disfigure so many later memsahibs' accounts.

Annie Smith Peck attempted seven times to climb Peru's highest mountain; Delia Akeley hunted big game in Africa; Marguerite Harrison spied in Russia for America; Louise Arner Boyd led expeditions to perilous East Greenland. Precursors of the modern Jane Goodalls and Sally Rides, More...these women represent a fascinating but forgotten era in the literature of exploration.

Reminisces, including two chapters on fox hunting with hounds.

Translated from the German by Eleanor Brockett: the record of Fischer's photo-safari around East Africa with an excursion to visit the Congo pygmies and details of her earlier life as a big game hunter.

Although Dr. Fossey's work ended tragically with her murder, her book remains an enthralling testament to one of the longest field studies of primates, covering fifteen years in the lives of four gorilla families in Central Africa.

The author gives an account of her life in the wilds, where she carved a farm out of the wilderness and lived alone with no white person within many miles.

Mary Kingsley began her life as a typically conventional Victorian woman. She would end up travelling to some of the most inhospitable regions of Africa and became one of the most celebrated travellers of the day.

In this panoramic work of history, Lady Antonia Fraser looks at women who led armies and empires: Cleopatra, Isabella of Spain, Jinga Mbandi, Margaret Thatcher, and Indira Gandhi, among others.

Here is the incredible true story of one woman's fight for survival in the Arctic wilderness.

May Sheldon was an intrepid American woman. This trip was a pioneering safari of 1891, full of adventures and entertainment, from Mombasa to Kilimanjaro and around the previously unexplored Lake Chala. She was alone (other than her 138 Zanzibari porters), and dispensed to the tribal people 1000 rings inscribed with her name along the thousand plus mile route. The book brims with facts and observations on the local tribes, which got her elected as the first woman Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 1892.

An entertaining account of a journey and hunting trip to Srinagar, Islamabad, Chamba, Lahore, Dholpur, Muttra, Baroda, Jaipur, Kotah, Jodpur and other places.

The first biography published in America of Freyka Stark, last of the great female adventurers and one of the most engaging writers of the 20th century.

The author has produced a true record of her travels in Southern India while her husband was a Forest Officer in the same area.

Remarkable, amusing and often violent account of the authoress and her cousin Cecily on a hunting trip in Somaliland, where she herself is mauled by a lion and one of her native guides is killed by a rhino. "A most unconventional woman, Herbert wrote several books recounting her big-game hunting excursions. In this, she is accompanied by her cousin Cecily, bagging lesser kudu, oryx, lion, and rhino in the Ogaden region . She relates the difficulties a woman has on a trip from bething to competition with male sportsmen. 'My cousin is a wonderful shot, and I am by no means a duffer with a rifle. As to our courage - well, we could only trust we had sufficient to carry us on through.

Novel on the life of an African elephant.

Big game hunting adventures by two early women hunters and adventurers.

An account, in story form, of the great Canadian moose.

History, topography, folklore, fishing, customs and the people of the Isle of Man.

A celebration of Northumbria, beautifully illustrated by Heaton Cooper's delicate paintings

A famous Edwardian woman big game hunter. Herbert traveled with her cousins to the Caucasus to hunt local species.

An account of history's outstanding, and largely forgotten, females. The women revealed within these pages were driven by passion - for religion, humanity, adventure, politics and knowledge - that couldn't be curtailed by convention. They were witty, defiant, and, more often than not, beautiful. Shamefully, most of us are unfamiliar with their accomplishments. Holland brings such faces as Joan of Arc, Daisy Bates, Stagecoach Mary and Mary Mother Jones into the same light as Napoleon, Lawrence of Arabia, Billy the Kid and Frederick Engels.

The author has drawn together a collection of texts that explores territories most often left for men. From the perspectives of both the hunter and the hunted, here are rich and varied works by Margaret Atwood, Anne Beattie, Joyce Carol Oates, Annie Dillard, Louise Erdrich and others.

Burton, Speke, Grant, Baker, Kingsley: in the space of barely fifty years these extraordinary men and women travelled to the sources of the Nile and tracked the course of the Congo and Zambezi. Yet their achievements led to commercial exploitation and ruthless colonization. Here are physical horrors endured, euphoric success and the dramatic consequences of a momentous meeting of cultures.

Elspeth Joscelin Huxley CBE (1907 - 1997) was a polymath, writer, journalist, broadcaster, magistrate, environmentalist, farmer and government advisor

In an open cart Elspeth Huxley set off with her parents to travel to Thika in Kenya. As pioneering settlers among the Kikuyu natives, they built a house of grass, ate off a damask spread over packing cases and discovered - the hard way - the world of the African.

Two Volumes. Delamere was undoubtedly the most influential settler leader in the development of Kenya Colony.

A murder mystery set during a big game safari in Africa. Odd blurb by Teddy Roosevelt Jr. who advocates open season on dilettante hunters.

In The Mottled Lizard the author carries on the story of when the family return to Kenya after the first World War.

A survey of the political, social and anthropological future of Africa, offering a variety of topics ranging from Uganda's prime minister to the dwindling rhinoceros population.

The author returned to Kenya in 1933 and writes about her adult life and the legendary personalities in the heyday of colonial Kenya.

Livingstone was not only an explorer and a geographer, but an anthroplogist, botanist, ethnologist, astronomer and above all, medical missionary. Huxley, an acclaimed writer on Africa gives an excellent account of his life and work.

The correspondence, spanning more than forty years, reflects the minutiae of life. The author's mother, Nellie writes about commonplace things and characters in a way that brings them vividly before the reader's eyes, providing an intriguing record of the life style of an unconventional white settler in the East African Protectorate in bygone days. A look at life in Kenya from 1912, through the Mau Mau emergency to the independent Republic of Kenya.

Raised in Africa, Ms. Huxley is therefore eminently qualified to write not only about the unique situation of that continent, but also about her journey from Zanzibar to the Congo

For more books by Elspeth Huxley

Martin and Osa Johnson thrilled American audiences of the 1920s and '30s with their remarkable movies of far-away places, exotic peoples, and the dramatic spectacle of Asian and African wildlife. Their own lives were as exciting as the movies they made, here revealed in this fascinating and intimate portrait of an intrepid couple.

Jenkins 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.

Grace King and her husband, a wealthy Minnesota banker, travelled to Kenya on safari in 1924. She was quite well acquainted with firearms, and purchased her heavy rifle from Dr. Richard Sutton. They established a base camp on the N'Goro Nderi river where they hunted lion, buffalo and a variety of plains game. Along the Guaso Nyiro, they bagged elephant and hippo.

Originally published in 1895, and never out of print, 'Travels in West Africa' is Kingsley's account of her dauntless travels, unaccompanied but for African guides, into Africa's most dangerous jungles, where the tribes were reputed to be ferocious and cannibalistic. Along the way, she fought off crocodiles with a paddle, hit a leopard over the head with a pot, fell into an animal trap lined with sharpened sticks, and waded through swamps in chin-deep water. Despite her travails, Kingsley succeeded remarkably in this unknown place, establishing warm relationships with the natives and collecting more than 400 samples of plants and insects, some of which are now extinct.

The stories of the greatest women adventurers in history. From deserts and jungles to mountains and icebergs, they faced unimaginable dangers as they crossed all five continents, often armed with little more than a corset and an umbrella.

Based on previously unavailable archives, Mary Lovell has written a compelling joint biography that sets Isabel in her proper place as Burton's equal in daring and endurance, a fascinating figure in her own right.

Looking at Britain's involvement in India over three and a half centuries, but particularly the period of empire from the 1850s to 1947, the author recreates the role of the women of the Raj from their own letters and memoirs, from novels and from interviews with survivors.

Beryl Markham (1902 - 1986), was a British-born Kenyan horse trainer and adventurer.

An exceptional autobiography filled with a strong spirit and fascinating events. Beryl Markham was raised by her father on a large farm in British East Africa in the early 20th century; as a child she preferred spear hunting with the natives to her school lessons. At 17, when her father lost their farm and went to Peru, she chose to stay in Africa and began a highly successful career as a race horse trainer. In her 20s she gave up horses and started flying airplanes, becoming the first woman in East Africa to be granted a commercial pilot's license, then the first woman to fly the Atlantic from east to west.

The account of a hunting expedition, with the author making much of her suffragette convictions.

Travels on the Uganda Railway and an excursion into German East Africa. With a safari consisting of 144 members, the Meikles proceeded to hunt in British East Africa near the Guaso Nyiro. They bagged hartebeest, oryx, rhinoceros, lion, gerenuk and waterbuck. After a bout with dysentery, the party returned to the field where Mrs. Meikle relates a variety of camp experiences with a bit of buffalo hunting mixed in. There is a final chapter in the book written by F. G. Aflao relating to fishing in the Protectorate. It includes sea-fish at Mombasa, trout in the Aberdares, barbel at the Nile Falls and the giant perch and tigerfish of Lake Albert.

A snapshot of pre-war English hunting from the woman's side. This book is really a primer on English hunting in general with a sections on fox, hare and stag hunting.

Marjorie Michael was the wife of George Michael, author of African Fury; together, they did the BBC television show, The Michaels in Africa. The Chapters are: Zambesi Journey; Elephant Mixture; The Menagerie at Home; A Little About the Man I Married; More About Him; A Man Called Jarvis; A Park and a Producer; Ways and Means; Some Savage Superstitions; and Change of Heart.

A lively, amusing retelling of the adventures of seven unique women, who fearlessly travelled to remote corners of the earth: Isabella Bird Bishop, Marianne North (a botanist who painted in Brazil), Fanny Bullock Workman (photographer and mountaineer), Annie Taylor, May French Sheldon, Kate Marsden and Mary Kingsley.

From the acerbic wit of Freya Stark to the raw courage of Dervla Murphy, over 300 years of the best and bravest women's travel is gathered here in a collection of stunning journeys.

A collection of travelogues by distinguished women authors includes the writings of Mary Wollstonecraft, Vita Sackville-West, Annie Dillard, Isak Dinesen, Rebecca West, Willa Cather, Margaret Mead and Mary McCarthy among others.

One of the world's most respected naturalist writers draws for the first time ever on Dian Fossey's personal writings to reveal the true story of a magnificent obsession...one woman's enormous empathy for a highly intelligent, desperately endangered animal - and how it ruled her life, her work and her heart.

Hare, ptarmigan, wildfowl, grouse, partridge, stalking, angling in Scotland, and a couple of chapters on hunting. An interesting work by a fine sporting lady.

"A woman of compelling personality, exceptionally energetic and effective in everything she did, Elspeth Huxley was not only a celebrated writer, but a farmer, broadcaster, journalist, conservationist, political thinker, magistrate and government adviser. She was a vivid chronicler of colonial Kenya, and became increasingly recognised as an observer and interpreter of African affairs over a period of profound change. Initially a staunch defender of the white settlers she would come to support moves towards African independence."

As the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving her multimillionaire father to run off to Africa with a near penniless man. Sackville went on to divorce a total of five times. Sackville's life was so scandalous that it was kept a secret from her great-granddaughter Frances Osborne. Now, Osborne tells the moving tale of betrayal and heartbreak behind Sackville's road to scandal and return, painting a dazzling portrait of high society in the early twentieth century.

Drawing from letters, diaries and memoirs, Pakenham brings us the lives of the remarkable men and women who passed their days, flamboyantly, desperately and sometime degeneratively, with little company but the mongoose and a cup of tea. You will meet traders, soldiers, sportemen, land-hungry younger sons, hunters in search of ivory, missionaries in search of souls, prancing proconsuls and earnest young men who enlisted to bear the White Man's burden in the wilds of Asia and the African bush.

An in-depth biography of Alice B Sheldon (1915 - 1987) who wrote science fiction under the name James Tiptree Jr. for more than a decade before her true identity was revealed.

Here for the first time are gathered the tales of early voyagers, such as the valiant tenth-century Viking adventurer Unn the Deep Minded and seventeenth-century Spanish conquistadora Catalina de Erauso. Intrepid explorers like Mary Kingsley in Africa, Alexandra David-Neel in Tibet, and Freya Stark in the Middle East traveled fearlessly into the blank spaces on the map. Artist explorers, including the great botanical painter Anna Maria Sibylla Merian in Surinam, writer Zora Neale Hurston in Haiti, and photographer Ruth Robertson in South America, captured in their art the beauty and mystery of exotic lands. Many brave women have ventured into extreme environments to bring back knowledge, whether they were aviators like Amelia Earhart, mountaineers like Annie Smith Peck, or Arctic explorers like Irina and Valentina Kuznetsova. And the annals of science would be far poorer without the work of such women as primatologists Jane Goodall and Dian Fossey, ethnobotanist Nicole Maxwell, and ichthyologist Eugenie Clark.

This is the story of Isabel de Quintanilla who left a privileged life in Valencia in the 1960s and followed the man of her dreams, Tony Sanchez Arino, to Africa. In spite of extreme conditions and bouts with malaria and Dengue fever, they formed a hugely successful safari business in some of the most remote parts of Africa.

In these vivid pages the author, an internationally famous photographer, recreates her life, set against the cruel beauty of Africa. Telling of her father's imprisionment, her brothers fight against the Mau Mau and her parents eventual death. There have not been many accounts of family life in Africa quite like this one, and none illustrated with such a range of rare and evocative photographs.

History of African tribal art told in text and photographs. African tribesmen in celebratory poses as well as text relating to the author's experiences. Beautiful images of a now nearly extinct way of life.

This is an account of the African Rainbow Equatorial Expedition which achieved the first-known crossing of Africa by boat, navigating an often hazardous and uncharted course through the waterways which lie between the Indian and Atlantic Oceans.

Two remarkable woman journalists in the Transval and Natal between the Zulu War anf the Transval War of 1880-1881.

An exhilarating journey through sixteen centuries of travel writing, aboard almost anything from a Bugatti to a Bath chair, Unsuitable for Ladies is a fascinating read, suitable for anyone who loves exploring new cultures and landscapes, whether first-hand or from an armchair.

Mrs Roby recounts her adventurous trip to Africa, first incognito as a maid to a wealthy couple, then as a bicyclist through the Belgian Congo. She hunted hippopotamus, elephant and buffalo. On more than one occasion, she had to face down mutinous porters.

An anthology of women travel writers with potted biographies of each, includes Kingsley, Dundas, Forbes, Mott-Smith, Perham, Fannin, Murray, etc.

'Do not set out on a tiger shoot without being prepared for a great deal of discomfort. Your temper, your personal comforts, will all be trodden under foot, and every annoyance must be borne under circumstances which amount sometimes to purgatory. Unless a woman is physically strong, it would be foolhardiness to spend eight weeks under such conditions'.

An account of a trip undertaken by two English ladies, without permit or escort, through southern Morocco to Marrakesh.

She described the different places she visited enabling us to learn about the culture, the colours, the people, the souks, the beautiful skies and all the things that made Morocco a favorite exotic destination for travellers around the world. Her vivid descriptions can still bring us the flavours of Morocco as it used to be.

The unforgettable tale of naturalist, conservationist, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Joan Root, and her brutal, unnecessary death at the hands of two mysterious masked men in 2006. In an attempt to uncover the secret of her murder, journalist Mark Seal instead discovered one of the most fascinating life stories he'd ever encountered, the story of a deeply passionate woman who dedicated her life to wildlife in Africa, whose romance with her eventual husband Alan only added fuel to her fire, and whose reinvention after personal tragedy was inspirational. Don't miss this fascinating investigation into the life of a truly unique 20th century figure.

Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, suffragist, feminist, explorer, writer and wife of the famous naturalist and illustrator Earnest Thompson Seton. 'A Woman Tenderfoot' is the account of her transformation from a highly refined life of the urban upper class to become one of the outstanding explorers of her age. 'A Woman Tenderfoot' was her first published book.

Tiger hunts in the jungle, intimate talks with the awakening women of the East, the inner meaning and probable outcome of the Ghandi movement, the India of temple, of jungle, of the brilliant social life of the English. This distinguished lady adventurer was a religious seeker, big game hunter and author. She descibes adventures in the India of the twenties; rogue elephants, religious experience, etc.

Account of hunting and other adventures with her famous husband Ernest Thompson Seton, in the Rockies, the Sierras, on the Rosebud Sioux reservation and elsewhere.

First-person adventure written by the first wife of Ernest Thompson Seton on her solo travel adventure through Indo-China.

A remarkable first-hand account of 1920's civil war-torn China.

Chapter headings include: Diana Down the Ages; The Art of the Modern Horsewoman; The Ideal Ladies' Hunter; Astride or Side-Saddle; A Novice Goes Hunting; Stable Knowledge from the Women's Point of View; On Riding to Hounds and Customs of the Hunting-Field.

Born in the 1840s into an aristocratic family who was murdered in the Hungarian revolution, Florence fled to the Ottoman empire with her nurse. She was next heard of living in a harem, barely in her teens. In 1859 she was presented at auction, and it was in this most unlikely of settings that she met her soulmate Sam Baker, a wealthy English adventurer whose geographic discoveries proved crucial to England's understanding of the African landscape. Saving her from slavery, Sam offered his paramour much more - a life of danger, excitement and passion exploring the uncharted interior of Africa in search of the source of the Nile.

From 1955 to 2002, Dr Sylvia Sikes travelled on and around Lake Chad - the immense lake in the southern Saharan Desert. This book presents an easy-to-read record of her travels, adventures and observations during this time, and illuminates the plight of the indigenous people whose way of life is being affected by climate change and modern development in Africa.

Considered to be one of the best and most comprehensive books on the African elephant.

Olive Smythies, wife of a Forest Officer, tells here the story of her experiences during the many years she and her husband spent in India, where they had their home, lived and worked, and shot and fished, amidst some of the most magnificent scenery in the world. Besides India, the author travelled extensively in Burma and Borneo, and recalls many of the scenes and events there which interested her most. The author also writes about the years they spent in Nepal.

What was life like for a woman on board an east-bound sailing vessel in the 19th century? And what sort of life was she going to when her vessel at last reached India? Drawing from diaries and letters from the time, this book attempts to answer those fascinating historical questions, so much a part of our history.

Exploring how women and men relate to nature and violence, Mary Zeiss Stange demonstrates how false assumptions abut women and about hunting permeate contemporary thought. Her book is a profound critique of our society's evasion of issues that make us uncomfortable, and it culminates in a surprising claim: that only by appreciating the value of hunting can we come to understand what it means to be human.

This is an interesting anthology of pieces on big game hunting and deer shooting by a wide range of women writers, largely from the twentieth century. Bear, deer, elk and other quarry in North America, trapping, shooting on the Nile, lots of big game hunting in various parts of Africa, lions, tigers, ducks, geese and shooting over marshes, antelope, coyote shooting and a lot else besides.

Eschewing the polar extremes in the heated debate over gun ownership and gun control, and linking firearms and feminism in novel fashion, Mary Zeiss Stange and Carol K. Oyster here cut through the rhetoric to paint a precise and unflinching account of America's gun women.

Tinling has written a book about the exploration and derring-do of 42 women who, individually or with another, ventured forth to parts unknown or little known in the 19th and 20th centuries. . . . The accomplishment of each is sketched in biographical form that will variously intrigue, interest, and fascinate readers.

Errol Trzebinski is an author of books on prominent individuals in the history of colonial Kenya

Revealed for the first time, the shocking truth behind the Happy Valley murder.

Between 1896 and 1920 hundreds of Europeans settled in East Africa. The author shows what life was like then, not just for the white intruders but for the Indian railway artisans and the Africans, and the tireless effort required to hone bush into farmland.

Hauntingly beautiful, tough as steel, totally amoral and immensely brave, Beryl Markham inspired lust, resentment and admiration, and was chased by scandal wherever she went. Married three times, she counted Edward Prince of Wales, his brother the Duke of Gloucester and Denys Finch Hatton - immortalised by Karen Blixen in 'Out of Africa' - among her lovers. Capping notoriety with fame, in 1936 Beryl Markham became the first woman to fly solo west across the Atlantic, the feat described in her bestselling memoir 'West with the Night'.

This is a full-length biography of Denys Finch Hatton who was Isak Dinesen's friend and lover in Kenya in the 1920s as well as the friend of aviatrix Beryl Markham.

The British wife of a French army doctor, Vassal traveled with her husband to Gabon, then into the Congo. They did medical work among the natives and Brazzaville, then proceeded into the interior to do a bit of big game hunting, Mrs. Vassal bagging a buffalo. There are also several photos of the game her husband collected.

This doctor's wife's diaries cover a great number of aspects of the life of Vietnamese, Cham and hill tribe people around Nhatrang as well as that of the life of a French medical doctor and his wife in colonial Vietnam. Gabrielle Vassal, a British national, had a good eye for the position of women and for daily household life and used her keen sense of observation and inquiry to analyze what she saw.

Younghusband reveals in this work the background of the dispute between the two sons of Seyyid Said Sultan of Muscat and Zanzibar. She also discusses the role of the British as an arbitrate in that dispute, and how England succeeded in 1887 to get the lease of the coast land of Zanzibar from Sultan Seyyid Bargash. She also describes the Arab quarter of Mombassa, a detailed account is given about the Swahili population and Zanzibar city, its history together with the visit of Sultan Bargash to England.

Fascinating tales of cross-cultural encounters and self-discovery from a wide array of women are interwoven with detailed advice on practical matters such as how to deal with sexual harassment, stay healthy, be safe and avoid theft. Beautifully written and organized for easy accessibility.