List of big-game hunters (English Wikipedia)

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Captain William Cornwallis Harris, The wild sports of Southern Africa: being the narrative of a hunting expedition from the Cape of Good Hope, through the territories of the Chief Moselekatse, to the tropic of Capricorn, Bombay, 1838.
Frederick Vaughan Kirby, In haunts of wild game: a hunter-naturalist's wanderings from Kahlamba to Libombo, Edinburgh & London: Blackwood & Sons, 1896.
Frederick Vaughan Kirby, Sport in east central Africa: being an account of hunting trips in Portuguese and other districts of east central Africa, London: Rowland Ward, 1899.
Denis David Lyell, Wild life in central Africa, London: The Field & Queen, 1913.
Arthur H Neumann, Elephant hunting in East Equatorial Africa, London: Rowland Ward, 1898.
P.H.G. Powell-Cotton, A sporting trip through Abyssinia: a narrative of a nine months' journey from the plains of the Hawash to the snows of Simien, with a description of the game, from elephant to ibex, and notes on the manners and customs of the natives, London: Rowland Ward, 1902.
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H.G.C. Swayne, Through the highlands of Siberia, London: Rowland Ward & Co, 1904.
Kenneth Anderson, Nine man eaters and one rogue, London: George Allen & Unwin, 1954.
Sir Samuel White Baker, Eight years' wanderings in Ceylon, London: Longman & Co., 1855.
Sir Samuel White Baker, The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia: and the sword hunters of the Hamran Arabs, London: Macmillan & Co., 1867.
Sir Samuel White Baker, The rifle and the hound in Ceylon, London: Longman & Co., 1853.
Sir Samuel White Baker, Wild beasts and their ways: reminiscences Of Europe, Asia, Africa and America, London: Macmillan & Co., 1890.
Jim Corbett, Man-eaters of Kumaon, Bombay: Oxford University Press, 1944.
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Henry Astbury Leveson, Hunting grounds of the Old World, London: Saunders, Otley, & Co., 1860.
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Henry Astbury Leveson, Sport in many lands: Europe, Asia, Africa and America, London: Frederick Warne, 1877.
The Maharajah of Cooch Behar, Thirty-seven years of big game shooting in Cooch Behar, the Duars, and Assam, Bombay: The Times Press, 1908.
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