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.

Patrick Orr

Jambo Kenya by Patrick Orr (1970)is the account of a journey through Kenya in 1968 - from Nairobi to Maasai Mara, Nakuru, highlands of Aberdares, Mount Kenya, deserts of the north and then down to the coast, meeting people and listening to their stories. During the trip, the auther and his friend go hunting for zebra and ducks. He also took a week long safari to hunt an elephant - following a lone tusker with a limp.

Norbert Klups

Norbert Klups works for several German-language hunting and weapon magazines and writes test reports on weapons, ammunition, hunting optics and equipment. He is also the author of 15 books about firearms, most of which are in German.

Double Barrel by Norbert Klups (2007) explores the fascination of a traditionally built, double-barreled gun for a passionate hunter. From the synopsis ... "The double-barreled gun is part of hunting, and when you hold an old English gun in your hand, your mind's eye almost automatically conjures up visions of elephants, buffalos, or lions, great antelopes in the African scrub or rain forest, even if you are just hunting deer or wild boar back home. With the detailed engraving, beautiful grain, checkered stocks, and high finishes of many double-barreled guns, they are ideal for your hunting or dreaming".

The Drilling by Norbert Klups (2007) covers the history, use and technology of a 'combination' hunting firearm. "These guns were originally designed for the German and Austria forests where there was an advantage to carrying one gun with multiple loads when hunting the dense forests filled with various types of game, from deer, to wild boar and fowl. The option of quickly choosing a specific caliber enabled the hunter to be ready for whatever came out of the woods."

Stephen J Bodio

Field And Forest: Classic Hunting Stories edited by Stephen J Bodio (2013) is a collection of some of the best hunting tales from the books by Theodore Roosevelt, Zane Grey, Ernest Seton Thompson, Grace Gallatin Seton-Thompson, Harold McCracken, Henry T Allen and Roy Chapman Andrews.

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F W F Fletcher

F W F Fletcher was a planter in the Wynaad area, near the Nilgiris hills of India.

Sport On The Nilgiris And In Wynaad by F W F Fletcher (1911). Big game hunting for tiger, elephant, leopard, bison, bear, tahr, ibex and deer, in the region of Ootacamund in the North Indian Himalayas. Also about rifles, their bores, ammunition, recoil, the double eight bore and more. Free eBook

William Wellington Greener

Modern Shot Guns by William Wellington Greener (1888) is illustrated with many engravings of shotguns and their parts, shooting stances, diagrams of spread patterns and the like. Following the text and the index are 20 pages of ads for shotguns, gunpowder and books. Free eBook

L R Wallack

American Shotgun Design And Performance by L R Wallack (1977) describes a wide variety of shotguns - singles, doubles, pumps, autoloaders and the rare bolt action - and how they work as well as the mechanisms and complexities that comprise them and much more.

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 Karen Blixen'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.

Miles Bredin

The Pale Abyssinian: A Life Of James Bruce, African Explorer And Adventurer by Miles Bredin (2000). After 12 years of travels James Bruce returned to England only to be ridiculed and despised as a fake by Samuel Johnson and others. It was only when explorers penetrated the African interior 100 years later, that it was finally confirmed that Bruce really had achieved what he had claimed.

Michael Brander

Perfect Victorian Hero: Life And Times Of Sir Samuel White Baker by Michael Brander (1982) is a fascinating biography of the Victorian explorer, administrator, soldier and hunter. After farming in Ceylon, exploring Abyssinia and searching for the source of the Nile, Samuel Baker returned to England with a celebrity status. He later returned to Africa with authority from the Prince of Wales to bring an end to the slave trade.

Sir John Hewett

Sir John Prescott Hewett (1854 - 1941) was a administrator in India and very keen tiger hunter, often clearing his official work very early in the morning to fit in his shooting expeditions.

Jungle Trails In Northern India: Reminiscences Of Hunting In India by Sir John Hewett (1938). As the Governor of United Provinces, Sir John Hewett enjoyed tremendous opportunities to hunt tigers in various parts of northern India. Thanks to the many royal friends - princes and maharajas who lavishly spoiled him with luxury jungle camps fitted with Rolls Royce cars and champagne breakfasts, Sir John witnessed the death of hundreds of tigers. He also gives a concise account of tiger shooting in India, together with numerous anecdotes from fellow sportsmen, measurements and who bagged most tigers. When Jim Corbett killed his first man-eating tigress in 1907, Sir John awarded him with a .275 Rigby rifle.

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