Safari Press

Safari Press is a book publishing company specializing in books on big-game hunting and sporting firearms and was started by Dr. Jacque Neufeld and Ludo J. Wurfbain. The company started in May 1984 when it issued a small, dark green catalog under the name World Wide Hunting Books. The logo was that of a white rhino on a shield. World Wide Hunting Books sold antiquarian big-game hunting books by issuing a catalog about four times a year. In 1985 Safari Press published its first book, which was a reprint by James Mellon entitled African Hunter. Safari Press used the rhino logo from WWHB.The business was started in Seal Beach, California, and remained there until 1990 when it moved to a commercial office and warehouse in Huntington Beach. Initially it occupied one unit in a building, but over time, came to occupy the entire building.The emphasis of the press was African big-game hunting from the outset, but soon it published its first sporting-firearms book by Craig Boddington entitled Safari Rifles. From there it branched out to wing shooting, North American and Asian big game, and mountain hunting. As of early 2007 the press had published around 225 titles and had slightly over one million books in print.