ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1910.
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First Edition of African Game Trails; Inscribed by Theodore Roosevelt in the year of publication
First edition. Large octavo, three quarters brown morocco, gilt topstain. Illustrated throughout. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication, "Inscribed for Elbert-Ellis Linn with the best wishes of Theodore Roosevelt Nov 22nd 1910." Also included are two letters, one from Roosevelt’s secretary and the other from the recipient. In very good condition. Housed in a custom clamshell box. A very nice example with provenance.
"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. Roosevelt’s total bag was enormous even by the liberal standards of that era" (Czech, 138-39).
African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist.
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