THE HAPPY HUNTING-GROUNDS (SIGNED)

Roosevelt, Kermit ; [SIGNED]

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1920

About this Item

Autograph; (x), 182 pages; Brown cloth boards with beige title and beige and orange design at front board with silohuette of two hunters standing over a water buffalo trophy. Three leaves have 1/8 inch chip at top margin. Frontispiece and 15 additional black and white photographs taken by the author. Kermit Roosevelt's signature on ffep; SIGNED on the ffep [book actually signed, NOT one of the tipped in labels]. Provenance: Purchased from Roosevelt family members from of a group of books belonging to Kermit and Belle Roosevelt. A few passages underlined in pencil, including: "[My father] explained to me that [this trip to Africa] was a holiday that he was allowing himself at fifty, after a very busy life -- that if I went I would have to make up my mind that my holiday was coming at the beginning of my life, and be prepared to work doubly hard to justify both him and myself for having taken it." Illegible (to me) pencil note on rear board. In this collection of essays, Roosevelt recounts his travels around the globe on various hunting trips with his father and siblings. The title essay is Kermit's reminiscence of his father Theodore Roosevelt. The other five essays include three that had been previously published in magazines. Written in the spirit of his father Theodore Roosevelt's wilderness books, The Happy Hunting Grounds is a collection of hunting stories, some of which recount the expeditions Kermit took with his father. Theodore once said of his son, "It is rare for a boy with his refined tastes and his genuine appreciation of literature -- and of so much else -- to be also an exceptionally bold and hardy sportsman." Kermit Roosevelt (1889 1943) was a son of U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt. He was an explorer, a graduate of Harvard University, a soldier serving in two world wars with both the British and U.S. Armies, a businessman and a writer. Kermit Roosevelt accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on expeditions to Africa and the Amazon. Theodore Roosevelt's book Through the Brazilian Wilderness recounted the father-and-son expedition into the Amazon Basin Brazilian jungle in 1913 14. What became known as the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition, exploring the Brazilian jungle with explorer Colonel Cāndido Rondon, they explored the River of Doubt, later renamed Rio Roosevelt in honor of the President.; Signed by Author.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE HAPPY HUNTING-GROUNDS (SIGNED)
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
• Publication Date: 1920
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Hunting and Fishing
  • Signed and Association Copies
  • Travel and Exploration