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Interesting to see Parabola's choices as I have all three. I will also second the Jim Corbett books. So, I will throw in three English titles: 'The Modern Fowler' & 'The Modern Shooter' by James Wentworth-Day. I will also include a fictional one which is a sort of thriller along the '39 Steps' theme and that is 'A Rough Shoot' by Geoffrey Household. Lagopus.....

One I always reread before grouse and woodcock season: "The Whispering Wings of Autumn" by Gene Hill and Steve Smith. Written for the Ruffed Grouse Society. Great book that should be reprinted.
"Modern Pheasant Hunting" by the late Steve Grooms.
"The Upland Shooting Life" by George Bird Evans. Read that while I was living in Morocco (with surprisingly good bird hunting). I have Evans to thank for coming home to the States with my first bird dog and my first side by side. Both have been afflictions of mine ever since.

Re the Corbett recommendations: I was a brand new high school teacher and had been assigned to study hall duty in the library. That's where I met Corbett. Fortunately, I had a good group of kids, because they all could have walked out the door on me and I wouldn't have missed them when I was reading about one of his hunts for a maneating tiger or leopard.

I appreciate your modesty Larry.

I spent 5 weeks in India visiting my son and family. I read 4 of the Corbett books at that time. MY INDIA was not as much hunting as some of the others, but really addressed the people of India. The condo we stay in in Kona has bookshelves full of the authors on Africa. Ruark and others are quite interesting when on has time to sit on the lanai and read.

It's not hunting stories per se, but Ted Kerasote's book Blood Ties does a fine job of exploring the ethics of hunting. He has a lot to say about the kind I think most of us here do: neither subsistence nor trophy hunting, but mindful taking of game that provides both sustainable recreation and food.

It’s hard to narrow this down to 3 books.

Africana for times we can only read about:

- African Game Trails (the ultimate Safari) by Theodore Roosevelt
- A Hunter’s Wanderings in Africa by Frederick Seleous
- Elephant Hunting by Arthur Newman

Upland Hunting
- I Don’t Want to Shoot an Elephant by Havilah Babcock
- My Health is Better in November by Havilah Babcock
- Shotgunner’s Notebook by Gene Hill

Ken

and #3...

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For those who enjoyed the Corbett maneater stories, the books, The Best of Tiger Hunting, and Hunting the Big Cats, have dozens upon dozens of accounts, of hunting maneaters.

I found out about Corbett in a reprint article in "Boy's Life" magazine, the publication of the Boy Scouts of America, when I was a young teen. I was mesmerized. I remember where I was when I read that story, some 55+ years ago.

Along a similar line to Corbett's works are three books I have by Kenneth Anderson: 'Nine Maneaters and One Rogue', 'The Black Panther of Sivanipali' and 'Tales From the Indian Jungle'. You might also like 'Tiger! Tiger!' by William Baze.

Just been digging through the forgotten corners of my bookshelves and found three other possibles: 'Mauled by a Tiger' by Arthur W. Strachan, 'The Tigers of Trengganu' by Lt. Col. A. Locke, and another good read with an unusual finale and that is 'Between the Elephant's Eyes' by Robert L. Scott. I refuse to divulge the ending but it worth the read. Lagopus.....