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.

Alan Caillou

Alan Caillou was the nom de plume of Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe (1914 – 2006) who was an English-born author, actor, screenwriter, soldier, policeman and professional hunter. Prior to World War II, he served with the Palestine Police from 1936 to 1939, learning Arabic. Due to his linguistic skills, he transferred to the Intelligence Corps and served in the Western Desert, in which he used the surname "Caillou" (the French word for 'pebble') as an alias. Following the war, he returned to the Palestine Police from 1946 to 1947, then served as a Police Commissioner in British-occupied Italian Somaliland from 1947 to 1952, where he was recommissioned a captain. After work as a District Officer in Somalia and as an African professional hunter, Lyle-Smythe travelled to Canada, where he continued to hunt and became an actor on Canadian television.

Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe wrote more than 53 'thriller' novels using various pseudonyms, many of which were made into movies.

Sheba Slept Here: A Delightful Reminiscence Of Ethiopia And The Twilight Of British Colonial Life by Alan Caillou (1973) is the author's amusing account of his 2 years serving as the Police Commissioner a large part of the territory belonging to Ethiopia, which was declared a Reserved Area supervised by Britain. He became responsible for law and order in a territory which included the Danakil desert plain, mountains, two small towns and a railway line whose boundaries were defined as about 300 miles long and 20 feet wide.

Donald M Lockhart

The Itinerário Of Jerónimo Lobo translated by Donald M Lockhart (1984). Jerónimo Lobo was the last survivor of a small band of Portuguese Jesuits who tried to reconcile Ethiopia to the Church of Rome. After previously serving in India, he was selected for the Ethiopian mission and he made a remarkable attempt to reach the country from the Somali coast. He eventually made his way to Bailul on the Red Sea and across the Danakil desert. He spent nine years in Ethiopia, mainly in the north near the source of the Blue Nile. He was exiled when the Emperor restored the authority of the Ethiopian Church and handed over to the Turks at Massawa. After suffering much hardship and danger he got back to India but had further incredible adventures including being shipwrecked and marooned on an island.

Victor Englebert

Victor Englebert (1933 - 2015) was Belgian self-taught anthropologist, explorer, photographer and author who spent several decades studying and documenting the cultures and traditions of remote and little-known peoples around the world. He worked extensively for National Geographic, producing numerous articles and books on his travels and experiences.

Wind, Sand And Silence: Travels With Africa's Last Nomads by Victor Englebert (1992) is a photographic record of the author's twenty-six years (1965 to 1991) living and travelling with the nomads of Africa. Englebert journeyed across the Sahara with two Tuareg men, joined a salt caravan travelling on camels through the bleak Tenere desert, lived with the elusive Bororo, travelled with the Danakil who, until recently, considered it their duty to kill intruders and he lived with the fiercely independent Turkana, who are in constant conflict with other nomads over scarce pasture and water in their territory.

Charles Nicholl

Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud In Africa, 1880-91 by Charles Nicholl (1997) Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud (1854 – 1891) was a French poet known for his transgressive and surreal themes. This book, however, is about his life after giving up poetry and his life in France by travelling to Africa. The author pieces together the shadowy story of Rimbaud’s life as a trader, explorer and gun-runner in Somalia, Djibouti, in the highlands of Ethiopia and in the souks of Cairo. In 1885, Rimbaud became involved in a major deal to sell and transport old Remington rifles to Menelik II, king of Shewa, which turned out to be a disaster. After travelling across the Danakil desert, when Rimbaud arrived, Menelik no longer needed the old guns, so got them for a far lower price than expected.

Lyle Rexer & Rachel Klein

American Museum Of Natural History: 125 Years Of Expedition And Discovery by Lyle Rexer & Rachel Klein (19950 recounts the first 125 years of the American Museum of Natural History and the series of expeditions "to the ends of the earth" to collect specimens for eventual exhibition. The book contains more than 240 photos which capture all the danger and difficulties of exploration and discovery.

D R Rosevear

The Carnivores Of West Africa by D R Rosevear (1974) is a comprehensive book about the West African carnivores whivh covers the classification and ways of life of these animals. Free eBook

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Douglas Tate

British Gun Engraving by Douglas Tate (2000). In this comprehensive book, Douglas Tate and master photographer David Grant bring us the most opulent examples of British gun engraving in existence. These handsome guns are from the greatest private collections in Europe and the USA and because of this, are rarely seen by the public.

Kevin Robertson

Buffalo: Shot Placement and Trophy Ealuation by Kevin Robertson (2008) is a handy pocket-sized guide on shot placement and trophy evaluation focusing solely on the Cape buffalo.

Ernest Hemimgway

Green Hills Of Africa by Ernest Hemingway (1935) is a work of non-fiction written basically as journal of a month on safari that he and his wife, Pauline Marie Pfeiffer, took in East Africa during December 1933. Kindle Version

E Cronje Wilmot

Okavango Memoirs by E Cronje Wilmot (2018) is a re-released version of the author's 1956 book 'Always Lightly Tread' and its later re-release in 1970 as 'Okavango Adventure: Memoirs Of A Game Ranger'. It includes all his original tales about being mauled by a lion, charged by buffalo, encounters with crocodiles, bitten by snakes, alone in a deep, dark cave with a wounded leopard, victim of bubonic plague while working as tsetse fly officer and ranger in the Okavango Delta. This version was further edited by Frank Nunan and contains 2 extra chapters of new material added at the end which includes a photograph album.

Peter Hathaway Capstick

Safari: The Last Adventure by Peter Hathaway Capstick (1984) explains everything you might want to know about how to plan and book a safari (at the time, several decades ago) with sections on the Big Five. It is an interesting, fast-paced and humorous look at the hunting world most of us will never see again. Kindle Version

Mark Siedschlag

Searching For The Wild: A Bowhunter In Africa by Mark Siedschlag (2003). The author describes hunting expeditions to Zimbabwe in 1999, 2001 and 2003 - hunting kudu, impala, bushpig, wildebeest and zebra, all the while avoiding elephants.

William E Casey

William Stamps Cherry: Into the Dark Unknown: Central Africa In 1899 by William E Casey (2020) is the first in a trilogy about the life of William Stamps Cherry, an American explorer of Africa during the years 1896 to 1900. He travelled alone on foot for three years through the bush in the country that is now known as the Central African Republic.

Joe Cavanaugh

The Jungle Hunter by Joe Cavanaugh (2000). The author has hunted in every major South American country from Belize to Columbia and the Amazon Basin to Bolivia. Cavanaugh has hunted all the native game of South America as well as the introduced water buffalo. He has pursued giant tapirs at remote salt licks with native hunters armed with only a shotgun, he has followed jaguars and pumas in a canoe and on foot with dogs and he has tracked deep into the jungle after tropical white-tailed deer, marsh deer, the shy and elusive brocket and peccary.

Brian Herne

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. Free Audio Book Part 1 Free Audio Book Part 2 Audio Book

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