I have also read many of the books mentioned and I am in fact in the middle of a good Capstick writing at the present, but of all the great books that I have read on Africa, many of them while I was on extended safari on the dark contintent, my hands down all time favorite was this one:

A Hunter's Wanderings in Africa: Being a Narrative of Nine Years Spent Amongst the Game of the Far Interior of South Africa
by Frederick Courteney Selous


..."I will not tip toe through life, to meet death safely."