Favorite Hunting Book/Author

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With all the threads on Africa and dream hunts, I know the closest I will ever come at least in the forsee able is through the writings of others. And since I'm always on the look out for a good read I was just wondering what your favorite hunting book/author is:
Mine

Robert Ruark/ Horn Of The Hunter
A kinda Hemmingwayesque Safari book.
 
Far too many for me to list, but here are a couple:

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Green Hills of Africa, Ernest Hemingway

Use Enough Gun, Robert Ruark

Horn of the Hunter, Robert Ruark

The Adventures of Fred Bear, Fred Bear

"Hell I was There!", Elmer Keith

Mahoboh, Ron Thomson


and I've got a ton more... too many to list...
 
I've read most of those books, but the only guy that makes feel like I am there when I close my eyes is Ruark. There's a chapter of Use enough gun. I think where they have walked out into some virgin territory and are near the end of the hunt where Selby leaves Ruark by himself at the new camp to go get everyone else and Ruark is remembering everything that has happenned to him so far, good and bad. I swear I read that chapter 20 times and it damn near made my cry each time. I find hemingway hard to read.
 
Books

I have Elmer Keith's, Big Game Hunting, but not the dust jacket as shown in the pictures here, but the same painting is in the front of the book. Also, mine is a second printing, 1954. In the book is listed his other books and at that time there were only four.
I guess his last one is the one first titled, "Elmer Keith, an Autobiography."
This one didn't sell, so they changed the name to, "Hell, I was there," and it sold great!
Which one are you missing, Johnn?
 
Crocodile Hunt!
by Keith Willey :)

Now that was a good book hard to put that one down.
Hunting Big sal####er Crocs for there Skins in the Northern Teritory of Australia in the 1960s.
 
X2 on Death in the Long Grass and any of Capstick's other books, he tells a good story. I really liked the ones about the hiipo, and the black mamba's.
 
I've read Ruark's Horn of the Hunter and Use Enough Gun. I am currently halfway through Capstick's "The last ivory hunter, the saga of Wally Johnson". I prefer Capstick's style.
 
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