Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Hardcover. Collectible; Good. Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE NEW boxes New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. 1910. First Edition. Ex-library copy with one pocket, bookplate, markings on spine and dedication page. In gold decorated brown cloth, Sm 4to. Some rubbing and fraying. Cover and spine sunned, paint stains to front panel corner. Light damp stain to some pages at corners. Binding sound. 529 pages.

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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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Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA (US)
Seller's Inventory #: bing77mm007
Title: African Game Trails
Author: Roosevelt, Theodore
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Collectible; Good
Quantity Available: 1
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons
Date Published: 1910
Weight: 0.00 lbs
Keywords: Collectible; History; Roosevelt; Memoir; Adventure

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