What are you reading?

[Rimbaud]

I just finished "Shotguns and Shooting" by Michael McIntosh yesterday. Excellent book if you enjoy shotguns. I also ordered "Baagh Shikar: The Art Of Hunting The Royal Bengal Tiger" and can't wait to give that a read. In the meantime, I will start on "How I Killed the Tiger: Being an Account of My Encounter with a Royal Bengal Tiger" by Frank Sheffield.

As I recall from an earlier post, you’re in Romania. If so, highly recommend the Transylvania Trilogy by Miklos Banffy. I’m hunting bear, and chamois, in Transylvania in late October, early November and I got very lucky and bumped into Banffy through some other novels, books on the Austro-Hungarian Empire, that I’ve been reading in anticipation of the hunt. Agree on the McIntosh book, too. V well done.

 

[DieJager]

Finished Wanderings... by F.C. Selous . Very pleasant read. I would say a must read if your into hunting in Africa.

Afterwards read Fugue for a darkening island by Christopher Priest. A dystopian novel from the 1970's about an immigration crisis that shook the world and changed Britain forever. How prophetic. It was a nice read. I liked Camp of the Saints by Jean Raspail more. Read it many years back.

Creepy how accurate those novels are about the current immigration situation in Europe. I think they are both sadly right that there will be no political solution to the problem and that violence will be inevitable.

To get this novel and the complex problems associated with it in the real world out of my system started book 3 of Ron Thomson his memoirs. This one is called In the shadow of Nyaminyami. Read about half of the book so far. It describes the aftermath of the creation of lake Kariba, the displacement of the Batonka people and the the effects of this on the wildlife. Also the start of the political turmoil by the black nationalists. This of course with a lot of hunting in between. I really enjoy his writing style and find his books the best I've read on hunting in Africa.

 

[CJNJ]

Just started West with the Night by Beryl Markham about young woman in Kenya flying biplanes to scout elephants, a book Hemingway called "a bloody wonderful book."

 

[CJNJ]

Old man and the sea is also really good. In thoroughly enjoyed both books. Definitely going to read some more Hemingway in the future. Any suggestions anybody?

My favorite is Islands in the Stream

 

[DieJager]

My favorite is Islands in the Stream

Thanks, put in on my "want to read" list. Seems like a compelling story I would like.

 

[Denvir Tire]

Just started West with the Night by Beryl Markham about young woman in Kenya flying biplanes to scout elephants, a book Hemingway called "a bloody wonderful book."

An excellent book, enjoy!

 

[PerH]

«In Karen’s kitchen «

Sadly not in English , only Danish .

Tells about Karen Blixen kitchen , events and parties , dinners , menus , guests and safaris . From Denmark to Kenya and back again .

Writes about the struggles in Kenya and Nairobi not having enough utensils to use and build kitchen and ingredients. Ordering items from France or Denmark . And learning to cook her self also . Many pictures of the safaris there with Bror and Denys . Speaks about when she was on the ship to Africa where she met and knew very well Von Lettow Vorbeck . He later sent her a get out of jail card incase of war which she carried with her in ww1 .

 

[HookMeUpII]

"Pirate Hunters" - Robert Kurson

It chronicles John Chatterton and John Mattera's quest to find Bannister's ship, The Golden Fleece, in the Dominican Republic.

I've read both "Deep Descent" and "Shadow Divers" (also by Robert Kurson). Very good books.

Had the pleasure of diving next to Chatterton when I first got into diving in 2005.