The Sitatunga book is also the second biggest of the four volumes published so far with nearly 370 pages and 454 color photos and 36 black and white ones. Nineteen contributors have written brand new and extremely captivating Sitatunga stories and readers may find that it will probably the best of the series thus far. It certainly succeeds in its goal of being THE definitive book on hunting Sitatunga.
The photographs are truly outstanding and include excellent examples of the work of a number of top class professional wildlife photographers, such as Phillipe Aillery, Jofie Lamprecht, Håkan Pohlstrand, Robert Ross, Brendon Ryan and Michael Viljoen, as well as hundreds of other photographs supplied by the contributing authors and excellent amateur photographers.
The chapters of the contemporary authors have been complemented by experts of yesteryear like Maydon (author of Big Game Shooting) who inspired James Mellon, author of the world famous masterpiece African Hunter (excerpts from which are included), William Cotton Oswell (immortalized by his sons in a two volume biography), Selous, Shorthose and Count Szechenyi to mention but a few.
There are chapters on rifles and ammunition, clothing and equipment, field preparation of trophies and hints on how to hunt Sitatunga. In fact, it is no exaggeration to say that the book contains everything you ever want to know about this sly, shy, secretive ghost of the African forests and hunting it in its natural haunts.
