Must reads (hunting stories)

[Sierra Hunter]

Looking for recommendations on books you can’t put down, Jim Corbett’s stories did that for me but I haven’t found anything quite as compelling. Any thoughts, I haven’t picked up O’Connor, am I blowing it? In a reading funk and want to pick up something fun to read.
Thanks guys and gals.

 

[SWOHTR]

O'Connor is fine.
I just read The Green Hills of Africa by Hemingway, it was OK at best...there were a few good passages towards the very end that got my attention otherwise I wasn't too enamored with it.

 

[mtnrunner260]

Robbys book of course.
Peter Capstick has a way of pulling you into a story.

 

[Copen1822]

Capstick. Death In The Long Grass.

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[BeastOfTheTrees]

Capstick. Death In The Long Grass.

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Read some of it while in Africa, it was awesome lol

 

[Mt Al]

Some recommendations:

Dersu the Trapper
Alaska's Wolf Man
Death in a Lonely Land
Jaguar Hunting in the Mato Grosso and Bolivia - great book!
The Last Ivory Hunter
Hunting on Three Continents is a good O'Connor book IMHO
Another Capstick book that's not really about hunting, but is a great book, is Warrior.

 

[Sierra Hunter]

Some recommendations:

Dersu the Trapper
Alaska's Wolf Man
Death in a Lonely Land
Jaguar Hunting in the Mato Grosso and Bolivia - great book!
The Last Ivory Hunter
Hunting on Three Continents is a good O'Connor book IMHO
Another Capstick book that's not really about hunting, but is a great book, is Warrior.

I’ve heard great things about the Jaguar book, you interested in selling your copy? They’re scare if I remember correctly

 

[NB7]

Capstick. Death In The Long Grass.

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I'll 2nd that one all day long. Great hunting stories with dry wit. Read it as a kid and still have it now to pick up every now and then

 

[ODB]

'Sagittarius' by Bob Swinehart.

A man of exquisite taste - well played.

I’ll add:

Land of feast and famine - helge ingestad
Months of the Sun - Ian Nyschens
Horned Death - John Burger
West with the Night - BEryl Markham
Out of Africa - Blixen
The Tree where man was born - Peter Mattheison
The Old Way - Helen Marshall Thomas

 

[kwackkillncrew]

Alaskas wolf man is great. Frank glasser was one bad ass

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[fatlander]

The Snows of Kilimanjaro” - Hemingway


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[NickKreutz]

My life with the Eskimo by Vilhjalmur Stefansson.

 

[Untamed]

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[ODB]

Moby-Dick: or, The Whale. Best hunting story ever, and also the best American prose poem/book ever written.

If that's too literary, go for "In the Heart of the Sea; The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex" Sperm whale say hell no, rams the whaleship, drama and cannabalism ensues....author is not too talented but the story is good enough to make up for it.
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You hitting on all 8 cylinders. Both great books.

I read Philbricks book after reading Endurance, by Alfred Lansing - which is of course about Ernest Shackleton.

Those are great books to read back-to-back as they follow a similar trajectory of tragedy with very different outcomes due to leadership.

 

[Tim in Wa.]

Incredible suggestions !
"Bows on the Little Delta" Glenn St.Charles
is an awesome read

 

[Mt Al]

Dersu Uzala is a top 5 movie also. When Dersu starts going blind at the end and he's staying in the captain's apartment, man that's a tear-jerker. Same when Dersu goes off to be alone while the soldiers are getting drunk.

I had no idea it was a movie! Thanks and will be watching that asap.

 

[Mt Al]

I’ve heard great things about the Jaguar book, you interested in selling your copy? They’re scare if I remember correctly

Looks like Safari Press has some copies:

Jaguar Hunting in the Mato Grosso and Bolivia

<p>JAGUAR HUNTING IN THE MATO GROSSO AND BOLIVIA<br />With Notes on Other Game<br />by Tony de Almeida</p> <p>1990 Long Beach, 275pp, photos, 6x9, hardcover, dj<br />ISBN: 978-0-940143-21-0</p> <p>Not since Sacha Siemel has there been a book on jaguar h

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I'd like to cling to my copy, so fun to read through every few years. Thanks though.

 

[Untamed]

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[craig7-11]

Wild men, wild Alaska- Rocky McElveen
Journel of a trapper- Osborne Russel
Wild sports in the far West- Friedrich Gerstacker

 

[Flatgo]

Rangers, Trappers, Trailblazers by John Fraley. not all hunting but some interesting history in northwest montana and the bob marshall wilderness. I have not read his other books, but he has a few others on the history in this area.