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• The Giraffe Hunters, by Mayne Reid (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• After Big Game in Central Africa: Records of a Sportsman From August 1894 to November 1897, When Crossing the Dark Continent From the Mouth of the Zambesi to the French Congo (London: A. and C. Black, 1899), by Edouard Foà, trans. by Frederic Lees (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Green Hills of Africa (c1935), by Ernest Hemingway (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• The Gorilla Hunters, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• Bill Biddon, Trapper: or, Life in the Northwest (New York: Hurst and Co., c1916), by Edward Sylvester Ellis (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Bruin, by Mayne Reid, illust. by Johann Baptist Zwecker (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Tom Swift and His Electric Rifle, by Victor Appleton
  • Gutenberg text
  • page images at durendal.org

• Hunting the Lions: or, The Land of the Negro, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• The Blind Lion of the Congo (author writing as Elliott Whitney; Chicago: Reilly and Britton Co., c1912), by H. L. Sayler, illust. by Dan Sayre Groesbeck
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Hunting the Lions: or, The Land of the Negro, by R. M. Ballantyne (Gutenberg text)

• American Big Game in its Haunts: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club, ed. by George Bird Grinnell (Gutenberg text)
• American Big Game in its Haunts: The Book of the Boone and Crockett Club (New York: Forest and Stream Pub. Co., 1904), ed. by George Bird Grinnell
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Buffalo Harvest, by Frank H. Mayer and Charles B. Roth (HTML at PBS)
• Buffalo Bone Days: A Short History of the Buffalo Bone Trade (c1939), by M. I. McCreight (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Thundering Herd (1925), by Zane Grey (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• Imagining Head-Smashed-In: Aboriginal Buffalo Hunting on the Northern Plains (Edmonton: AU Press, c2008), by Jack Brink (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Mule Deer: A Handbook for Utah Hunters and Landowners (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2010), by Dennis D. Austin (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Trails of Enchantment (New York: G. H.Watt, 1930), by Paul Brandreth, contrib. by Roy Chapman Andrews (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Wanderings of an Elephant Hunter (London: Pub. at the Offices of "Country Life", 1923), by W. D. M. Bell (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• A Tale of Three Lions, by H. Rider Haggard (Gutenberg text)
• Tarina Kolmesta Leijonasta (A Tale of Three Lions in Finnish; Helsinki: Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava, 1908), by H. Rider Haggard, trans. by Saimi Järnefelt (Gutenberg text)
• Tartarin of Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet (Gutenberg text)
• Tartarin of Tarascon, by Alphonse Daudet, trans. by Oliver C. Colt (Gutenberg text)
• The Young Lion Hunter, by Zane Grey (HTML at Gutenberg Australia)

• The Moose Hunter (Beadle's American Library #44; London: G. Routledge and Sons, ca. 1864), by John Neal (PDF at Emory)

• Sport in War (London: W. Heinemann, 1900), by Robert Baden-Powell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• An Amateur in Africa (New York: The Adelphi Co., ca. 1925), by C. Lestock Reid (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures, by J. H. Patterson, contrib. by Frederick Courteney Selous (unillustrated Gutenberg text)

• The Black Journey: Across Central Africa With the Citroën Expedition (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corp., 1927), by Georges-Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hunting and Hunted in the Belgian Congo (London: Smith, Elder and Co., 1914), by Reginald Davey Cooper, ed. by R. Keith Johnston (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Travel and Adventures in the Congo Free State and its Big Game Shooting (London: Chapman and Hall, 1894), by Bula N'zau
  • page images at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• On the Gorilla Trail (New York and London: Appleton, 1923), by Mary Hastings Bradley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia, by Denis D. Lyell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Land of Footprints, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)
• The Last of the Masai (London: W. Heinemann, 1901), by Sidney Langford Hinde and Hildegarde Hinde
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures (London: Macmillan, 1907), by J. H. Patterson, contrib. by Frederick Courteney Selous
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• W. N. McMillan's Expeditions and Big Game Hunting in Sudan, Abyssinia, and British East Africa (London: M. Singer and Co., 1906), by Burchard Heinrich Jessen
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Flying and Sport in East Africa (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1920), by Leo Walmsley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• On the Gorilla Trail (New York and London: Appleton, 1923), by Mary Hastings Bradley (multiple formats at archive.org)

• African Camp Fires, by Stewart Edward White (Gutenberg text)

• Gun and Camera in Southern Africa: A Year of Wanderings in Bechuanaland, the Kalahari Desert, and the Lake River Country, Ngamiland (London: E. Stanford, 1893), by H. A. Bryden (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Travel and Adventure in South-East Africa: Being the Narrative of the Last Eleven Years Spent by the Author on the Zambesi and its Tributaries, With an Account of the Colonisation of Mashunaland and the Progress of the Gold Industry in That Country (third edition; London: Rowland Ward and Co., 1893), by Frederick Courteney Selous (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Portuguese East Africa: The History, Scenery, and Great Game of Manica and Sofala (New York: E. P. Dutton and Co., 1906), by R. C. F. Maugham (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia, by Denis D. Lyell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Forest and Frontiers: or, Adventures Among the Indians (originally published ca. 1852 as Thrilling Stories of the Forest and Frontier; attribution to G. A. Henty appears erroneous), contrib. by Roualeyn Gordon-Cumming (Gutenberg text)
• Lassoing Wild Animals in Africa (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., 1911), by Guy Hamilton Scull, contrib. by Theodore Roosevelt and Charles S. Bird (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Young Yagers: or, A Narrative of Hunting Adventures in Southern Africa (Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1857), by Mayne Reid, illust. by William Harvey (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Off to the Wilds, by George Manville Fenn, illust. by Henri Théophile Hildibrand and Edouard Riou (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• 1,000 Miles in a Machilla: Travel and Sport in Nyasaland, Angoniland, and Rhodesia, With Some Account of the Resources of These Countries (London et al.: Walter Scott Pub. Co., 1911), by Olivia Spencer-Churchill Colville, contrib. by Arthur Edward William Colville
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Hunting Trips in Northern Rhodesia, by Denis D. Lyell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• In an Elephant Corral, and Other Tales of West African Experiences (New York: Neale Pub. Co., 1912), by Robert Hamill Nassau
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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