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By Lamar Underwood

"Besides being one among our best presidents, Roosevelt stands on my own as a conservationist, a visionary whilst it got here to the safety and renovation of America's ordinary assets, and an author."--Library Journal

There were few hunters as bold, as strong, and as articulate as our twenty-sixth president, Theodore Roosevelt. From his ranching years within the Dakota Territory to the recognized African adventures, Roosevelt's stories are extraordinary tales of the search. the easiest of them are accrued the following.

Of Roosevelt's many volumes of searching and exploration, reader favorites have continuously been Ranch lifestyles and the searching Trail and African video game Trails, either excerpted right here. in the course of his ranching years, Roosevelt ranged everywhere, and his African journeys have been additionally famously daring. In all his expeditions, Roosevelt finds intimately hunts that have been terrific trips of either pursuit and discovery, for at any place he went within the open air he assumed the twin roles of hunter and naturalist.

The hunts diversity from upland birds and waterfowl to prized titanic video game animals like elk, endure, and sheep amid lofty peaks. There are goat targets between ice-glazed mountain spires, and shut encounters with grizzlies within the black bushes. He survives lion fees and buffalo assaults, and stumbles on elephants.

From the peaks and plains of the yank West, to the big and mysterious East African online game fields and forests, Roosevelt stocks his stories and observations in impossible to resist prose.

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