I liked Patterson's "Ghost and the Darkness". He undramatically told about huddling in a RR caboose listening to a colleague being eaten, and stalking lions with an Enfield and a borrowed double that fired only one barrel. I'm amazed he lived to write it. Much, much better than the movie, but then books nearly always are.
Patterson didn't go to Africa on safari. He went there to build a railroad. Shooting lion just fell under "other duties as necessary".
I'm told the lions are still in the Field Museum, so if I ever go to Chicago again I'll get a chance to see them.
