African Game Trails by Theodore Roosevelt - 1910: Bedrock Book of African Hunting and Roosevelt's Adventures

African Game Trails

Roosevelt, Theodore (1858-1919)

Bedrock Book of African Hunting and Roosevelt's Adventures

Along With Salesman Sample/Order Book

Theodore Roosevelt served as the 26th President of the United States. He was a prolific author, writing more than 18 books during his lifetime, beginning with "The Naval War of 1812" in 1882. His other notable works include The Winning of the West, African Game Trails, and The Rough Riders.

One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics, this, with its larger than life sportsmen, was almost continuously in print until the 1930s. 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. On Juja Farm, his son Kermit faced leopard, while Teddy bagged rhino and hippopotamus. On the Kamiti River, buffalo were taken. Near the Sotik, additional rhino and lion were hunted, with elephant bagged near Mt. Kenia. On the Guaso Nyiro, giraffe and a variety of plains game were shot. Further adventures included hunting elephant near Lake Nyanza, rhino and plains game in the Lado, and eland on the Nile.

Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Very Good. First Edition. Publisher's original green color pictorial green cloth lettered in gilt. Frontis with black and white photogravure of Theodore Roosevelt. Book shows some typical rubbing and wear to the extremities. Bright gilt titles and clean pictorial front board showing elephants in the forest. The interior of the book is in crisp clean condition with bright, flat pages. Previous owner's gift inscription, 583 pages including index, heavily illustrated with black and white photographs.

Along with: African Game Trails, Salesman Dummy, same pictorial boards, approximately 30 pages of text with some of the same black and white photographs used in the First Edition. The green cloth spine is affixed on the front pastedown and the brown leather spine on rear pastedown. Original order form laid in. Several orders are noted in pencil in the subscriber's section.

$450 for the pair