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Published by Birmingham, AL: Palladium Press, 1999, 1999
ISBN 10: 0312021518ISBN 13: 9780312021511
Seller: THE HISTORY MERCHANTS, Santa Ana, CA, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: New. Bound in full dark-brown leather, extensive decorative gilt stamping on cover and spine, raised spine hubs, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Facsimile reprint of 1910 edition. Large thick quarto, 529 pp., with period photographs by Kermit Roosevelt, illustrations by Philip Goodwin, map, appendices, index. The personally-told tales of big-game hunting in equatorial Africa by a wealthy American adventurer who also was President of the United States. In 1909 Roosevelt and his son Kermit, on safari with a band of fellow sportsmen and a retinue of servants, explored Africa's wildest reaches--the "greatest of the world's hunting-grounds"-- looking for exotic big game. They hunted lion--king of the jungle--rhino, elephant, water buffalo, wildebeast, eland and more, but also encountered hordes of "the lower things, that crawl, and fly, and sting, and bite." A simply fascinating, early-twentieth century view into the Africa that has disappeared forever. The book is in unopened, new condition, inside and out.