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Autograph; Contents clean and secure in original green cloth binding with gilt lettering at spine and in very good dustjacket with two large chips at bottom edges and chipping at head of spine. Inscribed and Signed on ffep by the author to Kim Roosevelt, dated June 25th 1960. The author Major Robert Foran (1881-1968), was one of the first four European police officers in Kenya, an extensive traveller and big game hunter in Africa, India, Burma, Ceylon, US, Canada and Mexico; and a journalist, special correspondent and editor. For the first five years in the wild he hunted with a rifle, but subsequently his hunting was done with a camera. This book gives a record of his personal observations of wild animals in Africa. Foran had a long and wonderful adventurous life. His passion was big game hunting, and bagged numerous trophies from around the world. He was one of the first officials in charge of the Kenya Police, and after years of wanderings as a journalist, he finally settled down in Nanyuki, Kenya, about 145 miles north of Nairobi. Author of several books including ELEPHANT HUNTERS OF LADO, KILL OR BE KILLED,KENYA POLICE, A CUCKOO IN KENYA and many others, In this volume he recalls his experiences as a big game hunter in Africa, and his bagging the Big-5 (Elephant, Lion, Buffalo, Leopard and Rhino) in addition to many other large mammals and crocodiles. PROVENANCE: Kermit "Kim" Roosevelt, Jr. (1916 - 2000) was the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He was a career intelligence officer who served in the Office of Strategic Services and operated throughout the Near and Middle East for the CIA in the 1950s and 1960s. Kim Roosevelt visited Burma after the Japanese had been expelled. In Egypt under Allen Dulles, Kim Roosevelt supervised the CIA's operation to undermine the popular General Neguib and encourage the rise to power of Gamul Abdul Nasser. Even before his decisive victory, Nasser was communicating through Roosevelt to make a settlement with Great Britain. These back-channel negotiations eventually produced the treaty signed in October 1954. Nasser ascended and for the next decade Egypt's relations with the West moved along a sometimes rocky road. By 1965 relations had significantly deteriorated and Nasser was quite worried the CIA was plotting to assassinate him. After the Odell-Amin case broke, the CIA began to look for "more West friendly" Egyptian elements. Their attention landed on the Muslim Brotherhood, which according to Talcott Seelye, "We thought of Islam as a counterweight to communism. We saw it as a moderate force, and a positive one." In fact the CIA was spending millions of dollars on anti-Nasser operations, including an extensive propaganda campaign. Roosevelt was also the mastermind of the Central Intelligence Agency's Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup against Iran's democratically-elected Mohammed Mossadegh administration, which installed General Fazlollah Zahedi in power and and returned Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, to Iran's Peacock Throne in August 1953 for the purpose of returning Western control of Middle Eastern oil supplies. In 1961, Kermit Roosevelt Jr. took his two older sons Kermit and Jonathan on a month long safari to Africa. Having studied AFRICAN GAME TRAILS, T.R.'s famous account of that earlier safari in 1910, he and his sons set out to retrace its tracks. Aided by Life magazine, these Roosevelts roughed it in safari camps much as Theodore Roosevelt and his son Kermit had fifty years earlier. Like his namesake, Roosevelt was a great supporter of African wildlife conservation. ; Signed by Author.
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