Major Sir William Cornwallis Harris (1807 - 1848) was an English military engineer, artist and hunter. The sable antelope was originally known as the Harris Buck after Cornwallis Harris.

The original of this book was the very first to talk about sport hunting in Africa.

Harris's book is the first work to describe a hunting safari and presents a detailed picture of the African hunting fields prior to the great changes of the Mid-Victorian period.

Capt Harris was an accomplished writer and an observant and reliable naturalist, as can be seen by the remarkable detail in the comprehensive captions to his portraits. He was the first to bring to the attention of the western naturalists the existence of the sable antelope called for sometime afterwards, Harris' buck. While some of his paintings, particularly those of the elephant and the hippopotamus, are undoubtedly not accurate depictions, it must be remembered that these were completed after his hunting trip.

While this is truly an epic of travel and exploration, there are two sporting incidents of note with a huge buffalo bagged near the Casam River and elephant taken in Galla country.

Covers virtually all the game of Zambia and everything in the Bangweulu region, which is still one of the great game areas of today. Includes hunting in the swamp and river areas. Author literally went on an eighteen year safari.

Jordan's true story will make you nostalgic for an Africa that once was and will never be again.

The autobiography of "Mongaso", the man who is always moving. Jordan was an adventurer and hunter who travelled extensively throughout Africa in the early years of the twentieth century. He was obsessed with the search for the Elephant Stone, a "precious gem to be had (so the natives said) from the skull of a tuskless bull elephant".

"Mongaso" is a native African term for " Man Who Is Always Moving" and this is the account of the African experiences of hunter John Alfred Jordan as told to John Prebble. His story begins before World War One, and he only left for England 25 years later when, as he said, "rotten with malaria" another year in Africa would have killed him.

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.

The author's intention: "to buy a car in Capetown and drive it up through Africa on a long shooting trip with Cairo as the eventual goal".

The author travelled extensively, especially in Africa and spent a lot of time hunting in Kenya, Uganda and elsewhere in East Africa. One of his professional hunters was the noted William Judd. A fairly scarce title and one of the very few to talk about hunting with Bill Judd.

The Record of a hunting and exploration trip through Uganda, Victoria Nyanza, Taveta Forest and more. Stories of dangerous and horned game.

Elephant stalking, hunting and photography.

28 plates of old black and white photographs of a pride of lions, warthogs, buffalo, giraffes, and rhinoceros, taken in Kenya and Tanganyika.

A record of travel and sport in Abyssinia, with some account of the sacred city of Aksum and the ruins of Gondar.

One of the cornerstone books on African big game hunting. Includes writings by Burrard, Powell-Cotton, Gordon-Cumming, Lyell, Swayne and others.

A handbook for the novice big game hunter. Each species, along with hunting methods, is categorized by geographical location. Of greater interest is a chapter on the author's adventures hunting buffalo, addax in the Sudan, Barbary sheep, Nubian ibex, nyala and bongo.

Mainly on Kashmiri sheep, ibex and markhor, but also covers Central Provinces, Southern India and Burma

John Guille Millais (1865 – 1931), known as "Johnny" Millais, was an English travel writer, gardener, artist, and naturalist who specialised in ornithology and bird portraiture. He travelled extensively around the world in the late Victorian period detailing wildlife often for the first time

One of the most beautifully illustrated African wildlife books and full of knowledgeable content.

Topics covered in this autobiography include shooting, big-game hunting, salmon and trout fishing, deer-stalking, natural history, and travelling to Iceland, Africa, Norway and the Lofoten Islands.

This book describes the incidents of his life and of others the author had known. Travels in search of big game and natural history; letters of strange interest by all kinds of men living in many lands; sidelights on the great war, in fact a conglomeration of anything in life that might prove of interest to men and women who move about and do things a little out of the ordinary.

Interesting account of an expedition on the Nile including much on hunting, and the Nuer and Dinka peoples.

Encompasses all aspects of shooting, from stag hunting technique and statistics to tips on burning grouse moors in autumn to accounts of African big game hunts that blend solid observation with colorful anecdote. A lavishly produced and richly informative work documenting the sporting life of a bygone era.

A long respected work on the game-rich but harsh to penetrate areas of Sudan.

Author earned a living by poaching elephants throughout the Belgian Congo. He relates big game hunting in a sprightly manner and he is always hunting. Also hunting for lion and buffalo.

Bula N'zau was the pseudonym of Capt.Henry P. Bailey and means 'Elephant Smasher'

Hunting from 1884 to 1888. Bailey earned the non de plume of 'Bula N'zau' because of his hunting prowess. This book ranks right up there with all the famous elephant hunting titles.

Lions and more lions, plus elephants and rhino. One of the few books to have a photo of Denys Finch-Hatton.

Biography of the missionary explorer.

During 1894-95 A. Donaldson-Smith explored the headwaters of the Shabeelle in Ethiopia, reached Lake Rudolf, and eventually descended the Tana River to the Kenyan coast. This is the account of that exploration.

The author was one of the leading authorities on African game, with many years experience of hunting.

Sir Henry Morton Stanley (1841 – 1904), was a British journalist and explorer famous for his exploration of Africa and his search for David Livingstone.

Stanley's remarkable account of his expedition from the East Coast through the heart of Africa to the land of The Nile. This expedition was originally intended as a rescue mission for Emin Pasha after Khartoum fell into hands of the Mahdists and General Gordon was killed. Although failing in its primary objective, the expedition accomplished great things, Stanley discovered the great snow-capped range of Ruwenzori, the Mountains of the Moon, besides a new lake which he named the Albert Edward Nyanza.

Elephant hunting throughout the west African coast. Also lion and Cape buffalo hunting. Ranks with the best of the better known African elephant hunting titles and is one of the few on hunting these animals in western Africa.

One of the great elephant hunting classics. Sutherland was one of the greatest elephant hunters and his book has been in demand for almost 100 years.

Adventures of this important expedition are interesting not only because Teleki discovered two new major African lakes but also to sportsmen because the purpose of this trip was also to hunt for African big game. His favourites were elephant and black rhinoceros. He endeavored to find new haunts for game in previously unexplored areas. An African classic.

Lion hunting and fighting rebels and Germans in British East Africa during the First World War. The author served throughout the campaign in the Intelligence Corps, winning the D.S.O. and M.C. with bar, and the respect of the enemy - Major-Genersal von Lettow in particular.