African Game Trails
by Roosevelt, Theodore
Theodore Roosevelt declined to run for reelection as President of the United States in 1908. Partly as a vacation, partly to avoid the press as his friend Taft set up a new administration, (and partly for self-promotion), T.R. set out for Africa to hunt big game and collect specimens for a future exposition at the Smithsonian. Scribner's magazine underwrote the trip by paying $50,000 for twelve articles. It is these articles that eventually became African Game Trails.In April 1909, T.R. and his son Kermit arrived in Mombasa. With an entourage of 250 porters and guides, the Roosevelts spent a year snaking across British East Africa, into the Belgian Congo and back to the Nile, ending in Khartoum. This narrative is a straightforward chronicle of the trip, laced with tips on tracking and hunting African big game, and observations and opinions about Africa and its peoples, many of which are politically incorrect by today's standards. T.R. believed in the inferiority of most African peoples and recommended they be civilized by European rule.For the most part, however, African Game Trails is a book about big game hunting. Over the course of the year, the Roosevelts collected (i.e. shot) 1,100 specimens, including eleven elephants, twenty rhinoceroses, seventeen lions, twenty zebra, seven hippopotamuses, seven giraffes, and six buffalo. This was a different era, to be sure. In a way that makes the account all the more valuable. African Games Trails is well-written and rolls along easily, like a good, long, after-dinner story. It is also a striking record of early 20th-century African culture and natural history. It is great fun and highly recommended for the non-squeamish.
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
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New York: Charles Scriber's Sons, 1910. 583 pages. Leather over spine and corners, with buckram cloth over boards. Top edge of text is gilded. Covers are scuffed and show light wear along edges and corners. There are a couple of scuffs seen in the leather over the spine. Inked name on blank front free end leaf. Volume remains tight, and… Read more about this item Item Price
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African Game Trails
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Bound in pictorial full green cloth boards, gilt lettering (still sharp), contains over 200 illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and others and drawings by Phillip Goodwin, xxii 583 pages. Wear to head and heel of spine and along bottom edges of boards, small dent to top edge of rear board, some wear along spine edges. Item Price
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African Game Trails (2 Vol)
by Theodore Roosevelt
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Third Edition, First Issue. Cloth. Very good. The third edition, first issue of African Game Trails by Theodore Roosevelt.. Octavo, xxiii, [1], 583pp. Original green ribbed cloth, title in gilt on spine and cover. Includes "Scribner's Seal" on copyright page. Frontispiece portrait of Roosevelt. Some separation to endpaper at seam of front… Read more about this item Item Price
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AFRICAN GAME TRAILS : AN ACCOUNT OF THE AFRICAN WANDERINGS OF AN AMERICAN HUNTER-NATURALIST; (With Illustrations from Photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and Other Members of the Expedition, and from Drawings by Philip R. Goodwin
by Roosevelt, Theodore
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. After his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Africa to collect specimens for the Smithsonian Institution. Small quarto (10 in. x 7 in.). gilt lettering with dual (bordering) elephant graphics in gilt to front board. One or two light scores to rear board. Some spotting and fading to… Read more about this item Item Price
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Deluxe Limited Edition. Quarter Leather. Very good. Deluxe limited edition of African Game Trails by Theodore Roosevelt.. Large octavo, [two volumes], xvi, [2], 268pp; viii, [2], 269-529pp, [1]. Original three-quarter brown pigskin, paper boards, title stamped on spines. Plain endpapers. Uncut edges. Light toning and occasional foxing to text blocks, heavier on… Read more about this item Item Price
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
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New York: Scribner's, 1910. 585 pp. including index. Red cloth over boards with three-quarter brown leather in a deluxe binding of the first trade edition, front board almost detached with some splitting at the spine of the rear board, gilt lettering and decoration on spine, over wear and rubbing to the cover, top edge gilt, both dates on… Read more about this item Item Price
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African Game Trails; An Account Of The African Wanderings Of An American Hunter-Naturalist
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. brown cloth lettered in gilt. Very good. 529 pages. 24.5 x 17 cm. First trade edition with Scribner seal verso of title pages. Illustrated from photographs (all with lettered tissue guards) by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Philip P. Goodwin. Appendices.… Read more about this item Item Price
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African Game Trails; An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. First edition; octavo; pp; xv, (i), 529, appendices, index; gilt lettered brown cloth, top edge, gilt; frontispiece and forty-eight black and white illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and a map; Very good, a bright, tight, solid copy;. TR's post-presidential safari to Africa to collect specimens for… Read more about this item Item Price
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African Game Trails;
by Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)
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Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Signed Limited First Edition. Very Good. Signed limited first edition. Copy number 430 of a limited 500 sets signed by Theodore Roosevelt, and printed on Ruisdael paper at the De Vinne Press. Two volumes, bound in publisher's original half leather over boards. Very Good with uneven toning to leather, bindings lightly rubbed, a short… Read more about this item Item Price
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
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NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/None. Philip Goodwin. Hardcover, three-quarter leather over maroon boards, gilt lettering on spine, top edge gilt, 583 pages with index. More than 200 illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt & other members of the expedition, & from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin. First edition with W. B. Conkey seal on… Read more about this item Item Price
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Hardcover. Very Good. 583pp. Large octavo [24.5 cm] Olive green cloth covered boards with gilt stamped titles, and a brown, green, and black ink stamped illustration on the front cover. Sporadically rubbed and bumped extremities. The front hinge is cracked and weak. Textblock just beginning to crack in multiple spots. Previous owner's… Read more about this item Item Price
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African Game Trails: An Account of The African Wanderings of An American Hunter-Naturalist by Theodore Roosevelt; with Illustrations from Photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and Other Members of the Expedition, and from Drawings by Philip R. Goodwin.
by ROOSEVELT, Theodore; ROOSEVELT, Kermit (Illus.); GOODWIN, Philip R. (Illus.)
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1910 Theodore Roosevelt 1ed African Game Trails HUNTING Expedition Illustrated
"African Game Trails" is an engaging 20th-century book penned by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States. The narrative chronicles Roosevelt's thrilling hunting expedition across East Africa following his presidency. Along with his son Kermit and other members of the expedition, Roosevelt embarked on this adventure, hunting various game… Read more about this item Item Price
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African Game Trails
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition, First Printing. First edition, first printing. Measuring approximately 10" x 7" with 583 numbered pages.
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
by Roosevelt, Theodore
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