Roosevelt (Theodore) AFRICAN GAME TRAILS

1986 reprint hardcover with 504 pages in good condition. Dust jacket has a small section paper loss on one corner, see picture.

Czech (Dr. Kenneth) An Annotated Bibliography of African Big Game Hunting Books 1785 - 1999, page 238: One of the most famous of all the big game hunting epics, this, with its larger than life sportsmen, was almost continuously in print until the 1930's. In British East Africa, Roosevelt hunted lion and plains game on the Kapiti Plains, while in the Bondoni hill country he collected rhino and giraffe. On Juja Farm, his son Kermit faced leopard, while Teddy bagged rhino and hippo. On the Kamiti River buffalo were taken, Near the Sotik, additional rhino and lion were hunted with elephant collected 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.

An account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter Naturalist. With illustrations for photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and other members of the expedition, and from drawings by Philip R. Godwin.