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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 while studying and cataloguing the region's wildlife. Their encounters with diverse animals, landscapes, and cultures are detailed in Roosevelt's lively storytelling, making it a captivating journey into the African wilderness. The book is further enriched with an array of illustrations based on photographs taken by Kermit Roosevelt and other expedition members, along with drawings by acclaimed artist Philip R. Goodwin, offering readers a visually detailed account of their expedition.
In this 1910 first edition, Roosevelt describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met, as well as the flora and fauna he collected in the name of science. Long out of print, this classic is one of the preeminent examples of Africana and belongs on every collector's shelf.
Item number: #41094
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ROOSEVELT, Theodore; ROOSEVELT, Kermit (Illus.); GOODWIN, Philip R. (Illus.)
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.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition.
Details:
· Collation: Complete
o xxiii, [1], 583, [1]
o Illustrated throughout
· References: Czech 138
o Czech: "…one of the most famous of all big game hunting epics. In British East Africa, Roosevelt hunted lion and plains game on the Kapiti Plains, while, in the Bondoni Hill Country, he collected rhinoceros and giraffe."
· Provenance: Bookplate – Harry C. Manos
· Language: English
· Binding: Hardcover; tight and secure
o Pictorial green cloth
· Size: ~ 9.75in X 6.75in (24.5cm x 17.5cm)
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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 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.
- Author
- ROOSEVELT, Theodore; ROOSEVELT, Kermit (Illus.); GOODWIN, Philip R. (Illus.)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover; tight and secure
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner’s Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1910 Theodore Roosevelt 1ed African Game Trails HUNTING Expedition Illustrated, rare, antique, old, first edition, 1st state, provenance, signed, inscribed, dust jacket, vellum, manuscript, engravings, illustrations, leather, plates, maps, antiquarian
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