AFRICAN GAME TRIALS

1 volume. Published 1910. 

Dedication to Kermit Roosevelt

My Side-Partner in our Great Adventure.

Original pictorial cloth boards.

xxiii prelims, 583 pages.

8 full page colour plates by Philip R. Goodwin.

Maps, together with over 200 black and white photographic images.

One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics, this, with its

larger tha life sportsmen was almost continuously in print until the 1930s.

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.

On Juja Farm, his son Kermit faced leopard, while Teddy bagged rhino and

hippopotamus On the Kamiti River, buffalo were taken. Near the Sotik,

additional rhino and lion was hunted with elephant bagged near Mt. Kenia.

On the Guaso Nyiro giraffe and a variety of plains game were shot. Further

adventures included hunting elephant near Lake Nyanza, rhino and plains

game in the Lado and eland on the Nile. Roosevelt's total bag was enormous

even by the liberal standards of that era. In the reprint edition by Sydicate

Publishing Company of that same year, the illustrations by Philip R. Goodwin

appear in color rather than the black-and-white state in the first editions and

are certainly attractive, p.139. 

[Czech., pg 94. An Annotated Bibliography of African Big

Game Hunting Books, 1785 to 1950].

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