Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Roosevelt, Theodore - 1914

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914. First Edition. Small Thick Quarto. Frontispiece photogravure, 383pp., illustrated from photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other member of the expedition. three maps (one folding). Roosevelt was invited to visit Argentina to conduct a series of lectures in South America. He accepted and thought while there, he would take an excursion down the Amazon. Before his travels, he contacted the American Museum of Natural History, recruited a pair of naturalists and made plans to collect animal and other specimens during the expedition. He said this would be his last chance to be a boy again. He dropped his original itinerary and set his sights on traversing the River of Doubt, a wild and winding waterway that had yet to be charted by Europeans. A beautiful copy bound in brown cloth lettered in gilt, spine and top edge gilt, no names or book plates. Just a touch of fading to spine but a remarkably fresh copy partially unopened.