ROOSEVELT, Theodore and Edmund Heller.
Life-Histories of African Game Animals.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1914.
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First Edition of Theodore Roosevelt's Life-Histories of African Game Animals; in the original cloth
First edition of Roosevelt's final work on big-game hunting. Octavo, 2 volumes, original buckram cloth with morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, tissue-guarded engraved frontispieces, with illustrations from photographs and drawings by Philip R. Goodwin and with forty faunal maps. In very good condition. A nice example.
The 26th President of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt was a prolific writer with a vast range of interests and areas of expertise. A lifelong naturalist, Roosevelt was recognized for his robustly masculine persona which was reflected in his strong, energetic style of writing. Published in 1914, Life-Histories of African Game Animals is Roosevelt’s final novel on big game hunting, preceded by the enormously popular Hunting Trips of a Ranchman (1885), Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (1888), The Wilderness Hunter (1893), African Game Trails (1910), and Through the Brazilian Wilderness (1914).
Life-Histories of African Game Animals.
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