African Game Trails

By Theodore Roosevelt

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, Travel

Theodore Roosevelt's account of the Smithsonian-Roosevelt African Expedition of 1909 and 1910, which he led soon after leaving the White House. Traveling with his son Kermit through British East Africa and Uganda and down the Nile, he describes the landscapes, the people he met, and the hunting and collecting of specimens for the Smithsonian. It was first published in 1910.

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