AFRICAN GAME TRAILS
by Rosenberg, Harold
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good to Near Fine/No Jacket
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good to Near Fine/No Jacket. The first volume of Roosevelt's African big-game hunting memoir, subtitled: "An Account of the African Wanderings of An American Hunter-Naturalist." One of two first editions printed at the same time by Scribner's in 1910. This edition, referred to as the "Subscriber's Edition" with the W.B. Conkey Co. logo on the copyright page, contains many more photographs and illustrations than the trade edition issued at the same time. As the title page notes, "More than two hundred illustrations from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Philip R. Goodwin." 6 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches, 583 pages, including appendices and index, in olive-green cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering on front cover and spine, and gilt border framing front cover illustration of herd of elephants in a forest. Boards show only minimal surface and edge wear, lightly bumped corners and spine ends. Previous owner's signature on fep; pastedowns and end pages lightly foxed. Hinges are intact, binding tight and square. Text edges slightly soiled but text is o/w clean, complete and unmarked. This is a well-cared-for, very collectable copy of an historic document. (Sorry, due to the size and weight of this book, we cannot accept priority/express orders or orders from outside the U.S.)
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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- Bookseller
- H.W. Gumaer, Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005404
- Title
- AFRICAN GAME TRAILS
- Author
- Rosenberg, Harold
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good to Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition.
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1910
- Keywords
- AFRICA, FIRST EDITION, BIG GAME HUNTING, MEMOIR, PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT,
- Bookseller catalogs
- Adventure; Biography/Memoirs; History;
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