African Game Trails / Theodore Roosevelt / Scribner's 1910 First ed

Description: African Game Trails. An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist (1910) by Theodore Roosevelt First edition. Over 200 illustrations, b&w photos and drawings. Library rebind of red buckram. Rebind in library buckram, library-style spine titles, but no library marks of any kind. Prior owner's name on fep Text block is firm and square with no loose pages. The text itself is clean without markings. The interior of the book is in crisp clean condition with bright, flat pages with no handling marks, no stains, no foxing, and no bent pages. Edges of the text have moderate age toning. The coversheets show some toning due to the glue used to bind the book.Boards lightly scuffed and shelfworn overall, medium wear to spine caps. Frontis with black and white photogravure of Theodore Roosevelt. "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. Kenya. 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.

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