African Game Trails An Account of the African Wanderings of an American Hunter-Naturalist

by Roosevelt, Theodore , IV; Capstick, Peter H.

• ISBN13: 9780312021511
• ISBN10: 0312021518
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1988-07-15
• Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Summary

St. Martin's is proud to present a new and continuing series of the greatest classics in the literature of hunting and adventure, chosen from the personal library of writer and big game hunter Peter Hathaway Capstick. These showcase volumes will once again make available the true masterpieces of Africana to collectors, armchair hunters, sportsmen, and readers at large. The twenty-sixth president of the United States was also a world-renowned hunter, conservationist, soldier, and scholar. In 1908 he took a long safari holiday in East Africa with his son Kermit. His account of this adventure is as remarkably fresh today as it was when these adventures on the veldt were first published. Roosevelt describes the excitement of the chase, the people he met (including such famous hunters as Cunninghame and Selous), and flora and fauna he collected in the name of science. Long out of print, this classic is one of the preeminent examples of Africana, and belongs on every collector's shelf.

Author Biography

Peter Hathaway Capstick, former Wall Street stockbroker turned professional adventurer, has been critically acclaimed as the successor to Hemingway and Ruark in African hunting literature. After hunting in Central and South America, Capstick went to Africa in 1968, where the New Jersey-born writer continues to live. He has held professional hunting licenses in four countries, and served as a game officer. He has written seven exciting books on Africa, including Death in the Long Grass, Peter Capstick's Africa, and The Last Ivory Hunter: The Saga of Wally Johnson. He's also featured in an award-winning safari video and audio tapes.

Table of Contents

A Railroad Through the Pleistocene	p. 1
On an East African Ranch	p. 38
Lion Hunting on the Kapiti Plains	p. 67
On Safari. Rhino and Giraffe	p. 94
Juja Farm; Hippo and Leopard	p. 123
A Buffalo Hunt by the Kamiti	p. 149
Trekking Through the Thirst to the Sotik	p. 174
Hunting in the Sotik	p. 204
To Lake Naivasha	p. 237
Elephant Hunting on Mount Kenia	p. 271
The Guaso Nyero; A River of the Equatorial Desert	p. 323
To the Uasin Gishu	p. 374
Uganda, and the Great Nyanza Lakes	p. 426
The Great Rhinoceros of the Lado	p. 454
Down the Nile; The Giant Eland	p. 504
[Personal Acknowledgments]	p. 535
[Lists of Mammals; Heller's Notes]	p. 536
[Loring's Notes]	p. 545
[Biological Survey of Mount Kenia]	p. 550
[Protective Coloration in Animals]	p. 552
[The Pigskin Library]	p. 569
Index	p. 577
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