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.

Bill G Yung

The Half Fast Hunter: Volume Two by Bill G Yung (2024) is the author's second book which contains stories about his hunting trips taken between the age of 70 through to 79 years.
Bill Yung's first hunting book

W Byford-Jones

Wilfred Byford Jones (1905 – 1977) was a British author and journalist.He was also an army officer who was a member of Field Marshall Montgomery's staff.

Africa: Journey Out Of Darkness by W Byford-Jones (1962) is an account of the author's travels in Africa which includes a chapter on elephant hunting. He asked Ben Robinson, a professional hunter he met in Tanzania, to take him on a short safari to see what it was like.

Dr Hans Röhlink

A Beginners Guide To Hunting Africa by Dr Hans Röhlink (2023) addresses all the considerations when organising an African hunting safari, particularly for beginners. is not easy for beginners. This includes how to choose a PH guide and hunting area, what rifle and equipment is needed, how to travel with a rifle to Africa and getting trophies home, what are the costs to expect and much more.

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Anthony Dyer

Men For All Seasons And Legendary Ladies by Anthony Dyer (2008) is an account of East African hunting and the personalities who made the area so famous. This book is the story of the the hunters came into the job more by chance and evolved into professionals. From the very beginning they demonstrated qualities of enterprise and leadership far in excess of their duties as stewards to their safaris. Tony Dyer is one of these professionals. He has been involved in the wildlife industry his whole life and knew many of the people he writes about. There are chapters on Philip Percival, Bill Judd, Alan Black, Bill Ryan, Andy Anderson, the Cottars and many more.

Elgin T Gates

Trophy Hunter In Africa by Elgin T Gates (1988) is his only book on African big game hunting. It covers hunting in various African countries including Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, the Sudan, Belgian Congo and South Africa taking trophy animals each time. As the author was looking only for record size trophies, he carried the Rowland Ward book everywhere he went. One of the elephants he bagged carried a pair of tusks weighing 176 lbs and 181 lbs. It was Gate's last book written just before his death.

John Taylor

Pondoro: Last Of The Ivory Hunters by John Taylor (1955). 'Pondoro' was the natives' name for John Taylor when he first began hunting in Africa. This is a classic work on elephant hunting, including some lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino and plains game hunting.

Diggory Hadoke

Hammer Guns: In Theory and Practice by Diggory Hadoke (2016) is a mixture of historical analysis, practical application and personal reflection on the Victorian hammer gun as the finest sporting gun available today, just as it was a century ago. It includes topics on how the guns were devised, crafted and used, how they were perfected and how they work. Modern applications are given equal weight to historical ones, and subjects such as the selection of suitable ammunition, stripping, refurbishing and customizing will prove invaluable to anyone thinking of taking a hammer gun into the field and using it as they would a modern gun.

Tony Sanchez-Arino

The Last Of The Few: Forty-Two Years Of African Safaris by Tony Sanchez Arino (1995). The author began hunting in 1952 in West Africa and he has hunted and guided in the Cameroon, the Sudan, Kenya, the CAR, Botswana, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Here is the story of his career with much on rifles and calibres, the Big Five and the spiral-horned antelope.

Hunting In Kenya by Tony Sanchez-Arino (2000) is a selection from writings by some of the most famous hunters of big game in Kenya including Chanler, Ansorge, Boyes, Patterson, Meinertzhagen, Chapman, Foran, Stigand, Blixen, Blunt and many others.

Hunting In Botswana by Tony Sanchez-Arino (1994) is an anthology of big game hunting in Botswana with contributions from numerous famous sportsmen including Oswell, Leyland, Holub, Gillmore, Baldwin, Farini, Stevenson-Hamilton, Bryden, Chadwick, Selby and many others.

Jon Arensen

Drinking The Wind: Memoirs Of An African Odyssey by Jon Arensen (2010) traces the life of the author who arrived on the African continent with his parents in 1946. Growing up in Tanganyika in the bush by Lake Victoria, he loved the outdoors and as a young boy he helped feed the family with his shooting skills. After boarding school in Kenya and university in the USA, Arensen returned to Africa as a teacher at Rift Valley Academy before moving to southern Sudan in 1976. He and his wife surveyed the languages of southern Sudan for the Education Ministry before settling among the Murle people where they learned the language and culture and translated the Bible into the Murle language.

Ben L Seegmiller

Hunting Vignettes: Tales From The Big-Game Hunting World by Ben L Seegmiller (2023) is a collection of stories about the author's hunting adventures which include a dangerous snake encounter and being charged, by not one, but 3 bull elephants at the same time.

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