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Theodore Roosevelt African Game Trails
VHPS (HOLT & ST MARTINS) 0312021518 / 9780312021511 Hardcover BOOK
A new and continuing series of the greatest classics in the literature of hunting and adventure, chosen from the personal library of writer and big game hunter Peter Hathaway Captstick. These showcase volumes will once again make available the true masterpieces of Africana to collectors, armchair hunters, sportsmen, and readers at large.
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20.80 USD
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Theodore Roosevelt African Game Trails: An Account Of The Wanderings Of An American Hunter-naturalist
SAFARI PRESS 1571573313 / 9781571573315 Hardcover BOOK
The Classic Big Game Safari. Roosevelt's trip to collect specimens for the Smithsonian in 1908. Profuse photos, maps & drawings by Phillip Goodwin; 6x9 inches, 582 pgs.
'There are safaris and then there are safaris, and it is in the latter category that the African hunt of Teddy Roosevelt and his son Kermit definitely falls. Leaving New York harbor in March 1909, the pair set forth via ship and arrived in Mombasa, Kenya Colony. After their arrival, they took the railroad to Nairobi where a virtual who's who of Kenya came to pay their respects to the former president.
President Roosevelt's African safari was nothing short of grandiose. There was a huge retinue of professional hunters, including stars like Frederick Selous and R. J. Cunninghame. They had a virtual army of porters who moved tons of equipment (including a library personally selected by TR) into the interior of Kenya. The ever-flamboyant TR even flew a large Stars and Stripes over the main tent. No expense was spared in this extravaganza.
Their journey proceeded largely on foot via numerous sidetracks to Lake Victoria. After crossing Lake Victoria, the party hunted in Uganda before heading north to the Lado Enclave and then on to southern Sudan. After descending the Nile River, the Roosevelts emerged in Khartoum from the darkest sections of the great African continent in March 1910.
The safari, which was undertaken for the Smithsonian Museum, took about one year, and its emphasis was on the Big Five. Kermit hunted the more difficult species such as bongo in Kenya, sitatunga in Uganda, white rhino in the Lado Enclave, and giant eland in southern Sudan. By today's standards the amount of game shot would be considered inappropriate, but it must be remembered that in those days lions and leopards were considered vermin, no game license was needed to hunt them, and multiple elephant and rhino were issued on one hunting license.
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. Reproduced on quality paper with the photos on coated paper to allow for the best possible reproduction of the now 100-year-old images.
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36.40 USD
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Theodore Roosevelt Hunting Trips Of A Ranchman And The Wilderness Hunter
BANTAM (BDD)/RANDOM HOUSE 0375751521 / 9780375751523 Paperback BOOK
Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Badlands, these two wilderness tales endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. Originally published in 1885, "Hunting Trips of a Ranchman" chronicles Roosevelt's adventures tracking a monstrous twelve-hundred-pound grizzly. Intro by Stephen E. Ambrose; 5x7 inches, 832 pgs.
'Written during his days as a ranchman in the Dakota Bad Lands, these two wilderness tales by Theodore Roosevelt endure today as part of the classic folklore of the West. The narratives provide vivid portraits of the land as well as the people and animals that inhabited it, underscoring Roosevelt's abiding concerns as a naturalist.
Originally published in 1885, Hunting Trips of a Ranchman chronicles Roosevelt's adventures tracking a twelve-hundred-pound grizzly bear in the pine forests of the Bighorn Mountains. Yet some of the best sections are those in which Roosevelt muses on the beauty of the Bad Lands and the simple pleasures of ranch life. The British Spectator said the book "could claim an honorable place on the same shelf as Walton's Compleat Angler." The Wilderness Hunter, which came out in 1893, remains perhaps the most detailed account of the grizzly bear ever recorded.
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14.30 USD
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Theodore Roosevelt & Anthony Brandt The Adventures Of Theodore Roosevelt
SIMON & SCHUSTER 0792293460 / 9780792293460 Paperback BOOK
The wide-ranging adventures of outdoorseman, naturalist, and U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt are collected for the first time in this boisterous anthology of African safaris, ranch life in the American West, and a peril-filled trip down Brazil?s legendary River of Doubt. 6x9 inches, 400 pgs.
'What do you get when you combine an obsessive reader and writer, a 'wild and woolly' adventurer, an astute naturalist, and an ironclad political will' The answer: Teddy Roosevelt, the 26th president of the United States. Now, for the first time, National Geographic Adventure Classics Series editor Anthony Brandt focuses on Roosevelt's robust and adventurous spirit, and greats readers to an engaging assortment of Roosevelt's far-flung adventures across the American West, Africa, and South America.
Drawn from Roosevelt's numerous journals, letters, articles, books, and his autobiography, The Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt is a chronicle of the president's adventurous life in his own words. In addition to passages from Roosevelt's well0loved books, such as The Rough Riders and Through the Brazilian Wilderness, the anthology also includes little-known excerpts from all areas of Roosevelt's life'his ill health in early years; his grieving over the deaths of his wife and mother; his charge at the battle of San Juan; his hunting and traveling; and his conservation efforts as president. Woven together in this exciting narrative, the selections form a complete chronological account of Roosevelt's lifetime of adventure.
Beautifully enhanced by photographs and maps, The Adventures of Theodore Roosevelt is an unforgettable volume which best presents the unconquerable spirit of one of America's most fascinating figures of past or present.
ABOUT THE WRITERS:
Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, was a vocal advocate for a life of 'strenuous endeavor.' He wrote nearly a dozen books about his adventures around the globe.
Anthony Brandt is an expert in the literature of adventure and is book editor for the National Geographic Adventure magazine. He lives in Sag Harbor, New York.
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13.00 USD
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