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*''Wild Beasts and Their Ways: Reminiscences of Europe, Asia, Africa, and America'' by Samuel White Baker 1890 Archive.org [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth03bakegoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume I] [http://archive.org/stream/wildbeastsandth00unkngoog#page/n10/mode/2up Volume II]
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/tentlifeintigerl00ingliala#page/n5/mode/2up ''Tent Life in Tigerland with which is incorporated Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier : being twelve years' sporting reminiscences of a pioneer (indigo) planter in an indian frontier district''] by James Inglis 1892. Archive.org. ''Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier'' was first published 1878.
*[https://archive.org/details/thirtyyearsofshi00brad ''Thirty Years of Shikar''] by Sir Edward Braddon 1895 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924024053773 ''Rifle and spear with the Rajpoots: being the narrative of a winter's travel and sport in northern India''] by Mrs Alan Gardner (Nora Gardner) 1895 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/sportinhighlands00darrrich ''Sport in the Highlands of Kashmir. Being a narrative of an eight months' trip in Baltistan and Ladak, and a lady's experiences in the latter country; together with hints for the guidance of sportsmen ...''] by Henry Zouch Darrah, Indian Civil Service 1898 Archive.org
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/524139 ''The Indian Field Shikar Book''] by W. S. Burke, Editor of ''The Indian Field''. First published prior to 1904, the date of the 2nd edition. Pdf download, Digital Library of India
*[https://archive.org/details/cu31924012420240 ''Sport and Life in the Further Himalaya''] by Major R L Kennion 1910 Archive.org. The author joined the Indian Foreign and Political Department in 1893, serving in Kashmir, Gilgit and Leh until 1907. He also wrote a book on sport in [[Iran|East Persia]].
*[http://archive.org/stream/junglebywaysinin00stebrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Jungle by-ways in India; leaves from the note-book of a sportsman and a naturalist''] by Edward Percy Stebbing 1911 Archive.org. The author spent sixteen years in the [[Forestry|Indian Forest Service]]
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/207488 ''A Guide To Tiger Shooting''] 1920. Pdf download, Digital Library of India.
*[https://archive.org/details/soldiersshikartr00mainiala ''A Soldier's Shikar Trips''] by Brigadier General H G Mainwaring late South Wales Borderers (14th Regiment) 1920 [https://archive.org/stream/soldiersshikartr00mainiala#page/152/mode/2up Chapter V onwards] is about India, from 1899. Archive.org
*[http://www.archive.org/stream/daysnightsofshik00bailrich#page/n7/mode/2up ''Days and Nights of Shikar''] by Mrs W W Baillie 1921 Archive.org
*[http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.$b25288?urlappend=%3Bseq=11 ''Big Game Hunting in the Himalayas and Tibet''] by Major G. Burrard RFA (Retired) 1925 Hathi Trust Digital Library. [http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/233394 Pdf download, Digital Library of India]
*[http://dli.serc.iisc.ernet.in/handle/2015/211390 ''Shikar Memories''] by Henry Stotesbury Wood. 1934. Full title: ''Shikar Memories. A record of sport and observation in India and Burma''. Pdf download, Digital Library of India
*[https://archive.org/details/tigerhunters029908mbp ''The Tiger Hunters''] by Brigadier-General R G Burton 1936 Archive.org
*[https://archive.org/details/callofthetiger029909mbp ''Call Of The Tiger''] by Colonel A N W Powell 1957 Archive.org . The author was a contemporary of Jim Corbett, the latter was born 1875.
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