The Big Game Hunting Collection contains three classic accounts of dangerous animals, wilderness travel, and hunting in Africa and India.

Book 1: The Man-Eaters of Tsavo, and Other East African Adventures by John Henry Patterson tells the famous story of the lions that terrorized workers during the building of the Uganda Railway, along with other episodes from East African life.

Book 2: Man-Eating Tigers of India by Samuel White Baker presents dramatic accounts of tiger hunting and encounters with predators in the Indian subcontinent.

Book 3: The Lion in South Africa by Frederick Courteney Selous draws on the experience of one of the best-known hunters and explorers of southern Africa, describing lions, game, landscape, and the dangers of the veld.

These works belong to the older tradition of exploration and hunting memoir, combining adventure, natural observation, colonial-era travel, and the constant tension between human beings and the wild.