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.

Albert Townsend

Albert Townsend is a resident of Wyoming and this book is only available in bookshops in Buffalo and Sheridan, Wyoming - it is not available on Amazon or AbeBooks. The link here is to a website where you can read or download a section of the book as a pdf. You can also contact the website owner to get a copy if you can't find it anywhere else.

Where Elephants Walk by Albert Townsend (2021) is a collection of stories about big game hunting in Africa, with the author hunting dangerous game animals including leopards, Cape buffalo and crocodiles, as well as an array of plains game. Most of the stories recount his success and some failures hunting the great African elephant. Along the way, he interacts with professional hunters, encounters different cultures, and learns to appreciate the incredible toughness of African game.

Murray Cameron

Trophy Hunter: Hunting Adventures In New Zealand And Around The World by Murray Cameron (1992) traces the author's hunting experiences,from the challenge of the wapiti in New Zealand's fiordland to the search for the elusive gizzly bear in the wilds of Canada. The author also hunted across North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.

Louis D C Joos

Through The Sahara To The Congo by Louis D C Joos (1961) Translated by Isabel and Florence McHugh. This is the account of the author's journey across the Sahara from Algiers to Lake Chad via the Hoggar and Northern Nigeria, by bus and car, and on to the Congo.

Anthony Kirk-Greene

Symbol Of Authority: The British District Officer In Africa by Anthony Kirk-Greene (2005) is a fascinating look at this unique job - the District Officer was the pivot of Britain's Colonial Administration in Africa and throughout the Empire. This book is a look at men who served in this position of such breadth and endless generality, through the eyes of those who undertook to do it.

Judy Aldrick

The Fannin Papers: The Life And Letters Of Katharine Fannin 1902-1970 by Judy Aldrick (2010) is the biography of a remarkable woman, Katharine Fannin, who went to live in Kenya in 1925. She was successively a charity worker, a government spy in Abyssinia, a wartime military intelligence officer, a broadcaster and journalist and a campaigner for White Rule in Kenya where despite her views she lived after Independence. It is an excellent short history of the Italian Empire in Abyssinia and Somaliland under Mussolini and of the British campaigns in World War II to defeat the Italian army.

Phil O Viljoen

South African Hunting Journal: Top 25 Species For Your Bucketlist by Phil O Viljoen (2021). From the synopsis ... the bucket list game you still want to hunt before you are not able any more. This book provides 25 South African games species, from the Cape Buffalo to the Klipspringer but excluding the rest of the Big Five.

Dave Madden

The Authentic Animal: Inside The Odd And Obsessive World Of Taxidermy by Dave Madden (2024) starts with the life story of Carl Akeley, the father of modern taxidermy. Akeley started small by stuffing a canary, but by the end of his life he had created the Akeley Hall of African Mammals at The American Museum of Natural History. The author studies the attempts by the taxidermists to replicate the authentic animal, looking as though it's still alive. He looks at the many forms taxidermy takes - hunting trophies, museum dioramas, pet memorials and more.

It is always very interesting to know which books you are buying. Let's take a look at some of the books bought recently from the Bookshelf ...

Lonnie Henriksen

Pursuit: My Life Hunting Big Game by Lonnie Henriksen (2017). The author began his hunting career chasing deer with a bow in South Dakota. He eventually hunted throughout North America, Africa, Russia, Australia, Greenland and beyond.

Robert M Anderson

Wind Dust And Snow: Great Rams Of Asia by Robert Anderson (1998) The author says "As much as I am fascinated with the world of Asian sheet hunting, I confess that I continue to be equally fascinated with the personalities, spirit, and drive of the great hunters who go after these wonderful rams. In this book, I have tried, hopefully with warmth, a little humor, and good taste, to give the reader a look into what makes the Asian sheep hunter tick."

Wind, Dust And Snow II by Robert M Anderson (2015) includes great modern and historical stories about unbelievable hunts. There are two detailed chapters on Marco Polo sheep hunting. Several individuals managed to penetrate the Pamirs immediately after World War II in search of fabled Marco Polo sheep even though most hunting for them happened decades later. Anderson takes a long look at some of the mysteries surrounding Elgin Gates shikars to Asia and includes a chapter on Art Dubs mountain career hunting in Asia, as well as a chapter on Al Mears and his exploits.

Mike Honeycutt

Into The Wild by Mike Honeycutt (2019). This book is selling with the exact same synopsis as the 'Mike Honeycutt's World Of Hunting And Fishing' (2017). It is unclear if this book is a re-print of the previous book or if it has been updated in any way.

Kim Stuart

Dangerous Game Animals Of Africa: One Man's Quest by Kim Stuart (2018) is an account of the author's 20 year quest in the pursuit of three 'magnificent sevens' (lion, leopard, buffalo, hippo, elelphant, and crocodile) with three different weapons - rifle, handgun and muzzleloader.

Anno Hecker

Anno Hecker was a German big game hunter who arrived in Tanzania in 1955 and decided to stay. He served as a tsetse control officer and an honorary game warden and taught at the Game Warden Training Centre at the College of African Wildlife Management.

C'est L'Afrique - That's Africa: A Somewhat Different Hunting Book by Anno Hecker (2007) are the memoirs of a German big game hunter of great experience. Hunting elephant, eland, buffalo and many others, principally in Kenya and Tanzania. His stories are all that more exciting and interesting as he had to teach himself how to hunt as he went along. From his notes and memory he has written, in no particular order, what he considers important and of interest to sportsmen.

Diggory Hadoke

Vintage Guns For The Modern Shot by Diggory Hadoke (2007). Rescuing your old shotgun, by an enthusiast. Practical advice on buying the right gun for restoration. Describes the steps and potential pitfalls on the path to renovation so the gun can be used and enjoyed. The author argues that the quality of craftsmanship in many old guns, as well as the sheer pleasure of handling them, makes them superior to the machine-made over/unders of the modern shooting field.

Bruce Bryden

A Game Ranger Remembers by Bruce Bryden (2009) are the tales of 27 years in the service of in the famous Kruger National Park. Abounding with encounters with elephant, lion, buffalo, leopard and rhino, whether darting for research, managing culling operations by helicopter or stalking on foot.

Sara Wheeler

Too Close To The Sun: The Life And Times Of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler (2006). Conservationist, scholar, soldier, white hunter and fabled lover, Denys Finch Hatton was an aristocrat of leonine nonchalance. After a dazzling career at Eton and Oxford, he sailed in 1910 for British East Africa. There he first had an affair with with Karen Blixen and then the glamorous aviatrix Beryl Markham. This is a story of big guns and small planes, princes from England and sultans from Zanzibar, marauding lions, syphilis, self-destruction and the tragedy of the human heart.

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