1910 – African Game Trails by Theodore Roosevelt | First Edition, Hunting Trips

The twenty-sixth president of the United States was also a world-renowned hunter, conservationist, soldier, and scholar. In 1908 he took a long safari holiday in East Africa with his son Kermit. Roosevelt describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met, and flora and fauna he collected in the name of science. Long out of print, this classic is one of the preeminent examples of Africana and belongs on every collector’s shelf. According to Czech, this work is:

“one of the most famous of all big game hunting epics. 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.”

Bibliographic Details

• Title: African Game Trails, An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist
• Author(s): Theodore Roosevelt
• Publisher: New York, Charles Scribner’s Sons
• Edition: First edition, 1910
• Binding: Pictorial green cloth
• Format: (4to), single volume
• Size:  10 in x 7 in (25 cm x 17.5 cm)
• Collation: xxiii, [1], 583, [1] pp
• Illustrations: 200 photographic illustrations
• Contents Include:
  • Lion and rhinoceros hunting
  • Natural history notes
• Reference(s): Czech 138

Condition:

Very Good. Cloth binding secure with mild edge wear; page edges show light staining. Internally, pages and plates are clean and complete.

Why Collect This?

• Recognized first edition documenting Roosevelt’s 1908 safari
• Illustrated with 200 photograph illustrations
• Of interest to collectors of presidential, naturalist, or Africana books

Item Number: # 29775