Hunting/Outdoor Books?

In my humble opinion, the best hunting books ever written are those by Peter Hathaway Capstick. They are predominantly centered on his career in Africa as a PH, but he also covers dangerous game here in North America (bears) and South America that have turned man-eater. I particularly liked:
- Death in the Long Grass
- Death in the Silent Places
- Maneaters
- Death in the Dark Continent
- Last Horizons, a Return to Africa
- Death in a Lonely Land; and
- Sands of Silence

If you like fiction, then I would highly recommend Robert Ruark's book Something of Value, which covers the Mau Mau uprising and follows a professional hunter turned commando in Rhodesia. Very good book that is far more profound than a simple hunting book.

For more obscure books I really enjoyed One Rifle, One Man, One Land (I think that is the correct title). It follows a doctor that took the North American Super Slam (all 29 big game species) with the same .30-06 rifle. He gives a detailed history of the species and then tells the story of his hunt. It is a great comprehensive look at hunting in North America.

Haha you listed all the ones that I would’ve named. I really enjoy Rinella’s work

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For Humor anything by Patrick F. McManus. Used to read him way back in his Field & Stream days.

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This.

Never Sniff a Gift Fish and They Shoot Canoes Don't They are classics.

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the Old Man and the Sea - Hemingway

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Yeah this was a really good one.

I have Undaunted Courage on my Amazon wish list

Stories of the Old Duck Hunters series by Gordon MacQuarrie are pretty fun reads. I also like the Peter Capstick books about hunting in Africa.

The old man and the boy Roberts Ruark
Big December Canvasbacks Worth Mathewson
Once upon a time Nash Buckingham
The Bear William Faulkner
The longest silence Tom McGuane
Any book by John Geirach

To add to your list:

The Light in High Places by Joe Hutto (good read about Rocky Mountain Bighorn Sheep)

America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake by Ted Levin

Hunting Trips of a Ranchman by Theodore Roosevelt

The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America by Douglas Brinkley

Monster of God by David Quammen

Song of the Dodo by David Quammen

Flight of the Iguana (again) by David Quammen

Tenth Legion by Colonel Tom Kelly

Coyote America is a fantastic read.

Read the Jim Corbett and Kenneth Anderson books about hunting man-eating tigers and leopards in India. They aren’t the best written, but the stories are absolutely amazing and those dudes were not only great hunters, but they did great things for conservation.