LIFE-HISTORIES OF 

 AFRICAN GAME ANIMALS 



By 

 THEODORE ROOSEVELT 



AND 



EDMUND HELLER 



With over 125 illustrations from drawings by 

 Philip R. Goodwin and from photographs, 

 and with 40 faunal maps. Two volumes. 

 Royal 8vo, 798 pp. Price $10.00 net. 



The &quot; Life-Histories of African Game Animals &quot; repre 

 sents the first attempt to deal with the giant animals of 

 Africa substantially along the lines of Dr. Hart Merriam s 

 volume on the mammals of the Adirondacks and of Mr. 

 Thompson Seton s two volumes on the mammals of Mani 

 toba. It is the first attempt that has ever been made in 

 the field of productive scientific scholarship as regards the 

 big animals of any continent; and Africa is the continent 

 which in variety, numbers, and interest of the great game 

 on the whole surpasses even Asia and vastly surpasses any 

 other continent. The book is of interest to the profes 

 sional scientist, to the scientific layman, and to the intelli 

 gent sportsman. 



No book of this kind could be written unless by a man 

 who is not only a trained scientist but an accomplished 

 field-naturalist and observer and a successful big-game 

 hunter and wanderer in the wilderness. In addition to 

 all these qualifications the writer should be a man of let 

 ters, able to write with interest of that which he has seen. 

 No single man combining these qualities and with the 

 necessary experience to deal with the big game of a conti- 



