Scribner’s Magazine Vol. XLVII No. 2 February 1910: African Game Trails: An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist: An African Buffalo Hunt.

ROOSEVELT, Theodore.

Item Number: 103521

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1910.

First edition Scribner’s Vol. XLVII No. 2 February 1910 issue containing a separate appearance of the fifth chapter in Roosevelt’s African Game Trails: An African Buffalo Hunt. Octavo, original wrappers, illustrated with photographs, full-color plates, and advertisements including a full page black and white photograph of Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt with their first buffalo. In very good condition.

"One of the most famous of all big-game hunting epics, this, with its larger than 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 were 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" (Czech, 138-39).