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African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an African Hunter-Naturalist

by Roosevelt, Theodore

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New York / London: Syndicate Publishing Company, 1910. Book. Illus. by Philip R. Goodwin. Very Good. Hardcover. Very nice, solid decorated American trade binding. Brown cloth boards with gold, brown and red decorated cover, black lettering in gold title box on cover and spine, decorated spine. Tiny spots of wear at base of spine, corner tips. Very light surface rubbing. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages, edges and endpapers are clean and free of names or marks. Illustrated with many photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and full page color illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin. 583 pages with Index. .

Synopsis

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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Title
African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an African Hunter-Naturalist
Author
Roosevelt, Theodore
Illustrator
Philip R. Goodwin
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
No Jacket
Publisher
Syndicate Publishing Company
Place of Publication
New York / London
Date Published
1910
Keywords
hunting in Africa, big game hunting, Theodore Roosevelt, African safari, Decorated American Trade Binding, DATB
Bookseller catalogs
Adventure/Travel; Hunting;

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