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SH Book Club

Jim Corbett's Maneaters of Kumaon and Leopard of Rudraprayag
Rudyard Kipling's The man who would be king
James Burke's Connections
John Taylor's African Rifles and Cartridges and Maneaters and Marauders
Baltasar Gracian's The art of worldy wisdom

These are just a few I have enjoyed.
 
Two more- One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Of Mice and Men. Admittedly I’ve never read any non-fiction hunting/outdoors books so I can’t contribute there.

Edit: Killers of the Flower Moon is also an amazing story.
 
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One of the few times I've literally laughed out loud while reading a book was A Walk in the Woods by Bill Bryson about an I'll prepared for trek on the Appalachian Trail.

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Peter Hathaway Capstick. He was a PH in African who specialized in big cats. Death in the Long Grass and Death in the Silent Places are 2 of my favorite hunting story collections. He leads Long Grass with something like this:

"There is a common misconception that big cats hunt people. This is simply untrue. Big cats hunt buffalo, gazelles, and other large ungulates. Big cats simply do not need to hunt people. They just kill them."
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Big second on Capstick. Death in the long grass is one of my favorites. I think my brother stole it…
 
Here is an awesome way to get free books on your Kindle:

Do you know about Project Gutenberg? In case you don't, it is a free, online library of books that are out of copyright. There is a huge selection of what most folks would call "classics." Unfortunately for you, it is mostly fiction, but there is some old non-fiction (think Darwin and other 19th-century stuff).

www.gutenberg.org

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg is a library of free eBooks.
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Anyways, your kindle either already has an email address or you can set one up through your amazon account. It is totally free. Use a laptop to search through Gutenberg for books you might be interested in. Download the files for the books you want. Then, email them to your kindle email and "sync" your kindle with your amazon account. The books should pop-up, ready to read.

As far as book recommendations are concerned, I'll add two fiction and one non-fiction (there are already many great recs here):

Moby-**** (on Gutenberg)
Moby **** is not as intimidating as you might think. I fully expected to be bogged down by a, well, whale of a book. That was not the case. Moby **** is actually quite approachable, and believe it or not, humerous at many points. I would argue at length that this is THE great American novel, and as such, should be read by anyone that wants to understand what America is. Better yet, it is a hunting story. I think about this book every single day.

Butcher's Crossing by John Williams
This is a story about a young man who drops out of college to go see the west (and the buffalo) before it disappears. He hires an outfit to go hunt buffalo and...things don't turn out the way that they are planned. If you liked Rinella's American Buffalo, I have a feeling you'd like Butcher's Crossing, too. Everyone that I have recommended this book to has loved it. Also, you better watch it before the movie comes out. Nicholas Cage is going to torpedo this awesome story into another National Turd

Alaska's Wolf Man, the 1915-1955 wilderness adventures of Frank Glaser
It has been awhile since I read this book, but I remember not being able to put it down. Frank Glaser trapped and shot wolves for the US government when they were using caribou in place of beef. Awesome book, though I never see it recommended. I heard about it from a guy who lived in AK for a summer.
 
The C.J.Pickett Novels/ Joe Pickett Series, Also has a movie.
Terry Johnston Series about the Mt. Man. There are about 40 of them that I've read.
 
Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Dan Flores

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Death in the Long grass one of my favorites.

Terry C. Johnston "Dance on the Wind" Starts a series about a mountain man Titus Bass nicknamed Scratch. I don't know if you can get them on Kindle though.

One I couldn't put down was Anna L. Waldo's "Sacajawea" also not sure about being on Kindle.
 
Circling back to this. I recently started Cam Hanes' book Endurance. I'm about a third of the way through so far, but nothing all that compelling so far. While I am fascinated by his drive and commitment to fitness and hunting, the book just isn't all that interesting if you already know about Cam.
 
I recommend:

Hunting:
Stalking & Still-Hunting: The Ground Hunter's Bible by G. Fred Asbell

For any History Buffs out there:

Covered With Glory: The 26th North Carolina Infantry at the battle of Gettysburg by Rod Gragg
Storming Little Round Top: The 15th Alabama & Their Fight for the High Ground, July 2, 1863 by Phillip Thomas Tucker

& if you wanna go back a little further in history:

War on the Run-The Epic Story of Robert Rogers and the Conquest of America's First Frontier by John F. Ross

For you fiction lovers out there:

Term Limits by Vince Flynn

Without Remorse by Tom Clancy

One Second After
One Year After
The Final Day - all by William R Forstchen
 
Another vote for Capstick as an author, especially "Death in the Long Grass".

And if you like reading, and haven't read them, you need to read "The Old Man and the Boy" and possibly "The Old Man's Boy Grows Older" by Robert Ruark. If you're into lighter reading, "Roping Lions in the Grand Canyon" and "Tales of Freshwater Fishing" by Zane Grey are good reads.

Also, a fan of most of Hemmingway's African hunting books and G. Fred Asbell (particularly the "Instinctive Shooting" books, although I like his style in general).
 
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I re-read the WEB Griffen "The Corps" series every deer season. This season I also included the Game of Thrones books. John Sandford novels also make a frequent appearance. I took some light twine - I think from a chalkline - and made a dummy cord / bookmark I could clip in to my tether 'biner along with my bridge, to prevent dropping my book.

For nonfiction I generally go to biographies - Truman, Churchill, Patton, etc. I recently heard an interview with Dennis Praeger in which he discussed his recent commentary on Deuteronomy, I'm going to have to find that on a local shelf someplace. I hadn't realized that Deuteronomy was so frequently quoted by both Christ and the Founding Fathers.

If you listen to podcasts, "Context with Brad Harris" summarizes a number of books by academics which he argues explain why the West turned out the way it did. Academic writing is generally a bit dense for me, but when I get the time (maybe after my toddler has grown up and gone to college) I want to give some of his recommendations a try.
 
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