AFRICAN GAME TRAILS : AN ACCOUNT OF THE AFRICAN WANDERINGS OF AN AMERICAN HUNTER-NATURALIST; (With Illustrations from Photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and Other Members of the Expedition, and from Drawings by Philip R. Goodwin
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910. Kermit Roosevelt. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Quarto, 9.75 in. x 6.75 in., pp. 583. First printing, with Conkey & Hammond colophon to copyright page. 208 illustrations: predominantly photography by Kermit Roosevelt, but with some drawings, including two maps. Three quarter-bound calf over maroon cloth. Gilt lettering to spine, with three raised bands (four compartments), each double-ruled in gilt. Top-edge gilt. Rubbing to extremities, with repairs to exposed corners. Sunning to spine. Touch of spine lean. Front hinge professionally repaired (but needs a gentle reader). Previous owner's name neatly written at top of front pastedown. Light toning to text block. Very Good. Item #100414
After his presidency, Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Africa to collect specimens for the Smithsonian's new Natural History Museum. The expedition collected around 11,400 animal specimens. Roosevelt and his outfit were said to have killed 4000 birds, 2000 reptiles and amphibians, 500 fish, and 4987 mammals.
Chapters include: A Railroad Through the Pleistocene; On an East African Ranch; Lion Hunting on the Kapiti Plains; On Safari. Rhino and Giraffe; Juja Farm; Hippo and Leopard; A Buffalo-Hunt by the Kamiti; Trekking Through the Thirst to the Sotik; Hunting in The Sotik; To Lake Naivasha; Elaphant Hunting on Mount Kenia; The Guaso Nyero; A River of the Equatorial Desert; To the Uasin Gishu; Uganda, and the Great Nyanza Lakes; The Great Rhinocerous of the Lado. Down the Nile; The Giant Eland. Chapters are followed by five appendices: Personal Acknowledgements; Lists of Mammals; Heller's Notes; Loring's Notes; Biological Survey of Mount Kenia; Protective Coloration in Animals; The Pigskin Library. All followed by an Index.
Price: $325.00