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President Roosevelt's African safari in 1909, which was undertaken for the Smithsonian Museum, took about one year. During the course of the safari, TR sent dispatches of his hunts to Scribner's Magazine that were read by millions of people back in the States. These stories formed the basis of his book, African Game Trails, which was originally issued in book form in 1910. This Safari Press edition celebrates the 100-year anniversary of the greatest of all African hunts by an American president considered an icon of the hunting world.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.
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Peter Hathaway Capstick, former Wall Street stockbroker turned professional adventurer, has been critically acclaimed as the successor to Hemingway and Ruark in African hunting literature. After hunting in Central and South America, Capstick went to Africa in 1968, where the New Jersey-born writer continues to live. He has held professional hunting licenses in four countries, and served as a game officer. He has written seven exciting books on Africa, including "Death in the Long Grass," "Peter Capstick's Africa," and "The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson," He's also featured in an award-winning safari video and audio tapes.
Kermit Roosevelt is an assistant professor of law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. A former clerk to a U.S. Supreme Court justice, he is a graduate of Yale Law School and a member of the Human Rights Advisory Board of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
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- VerlagSafari Press,U.S.
- Erscheinungsdatum2009
- ISBN 10 1571573313
- ISBN 13 9781571573315
- EinbandTapa dura
- SpracheEnglisch
- Anzahl der Seiten529
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