AFRICAN GAME TRAILS

THEODORE ROOSEVELT

Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910

First Edition, First Printing: Original green color pictorial green cloth lettered in gilt. Frontis with black and white photogravure of Theodore Roosevelt The book is in lovely very good to near fine condition with but the typical rubbing and wear to the extremities. 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. "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. Beautiful condition book internally appearing as unread. Please see images. ADDITIONAL IMAGES AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST. Please see our ABE store for other Rare Book titles. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001307

Bibliografische Details

Titel: AFRICAN GAME TRAILS
Verlag: Charles Scribner's Sons
Erscheinungsdatum: 1910
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand: Very Good
Auflage: 1st Edition