The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - Volume V Paperback

We took breakfast-the eleven oclock Brazilian breakfast-on Colonel Rondons boat. Caymans were becoming more plentiful. The ugly brutes lay on the sand-flats and mud banks like logs, always with the head raised, sometimes with the jaws open. They are often dangerous to domestic animals, and are always destructive to fish, and it is good to shoot them. I killed half a dozen, and missed nearly as many more-a throbbing boat does not improve ones aim. -from Through the Brazilian Wilderness As much a symbol of the nations adventurous past as he was the very picture of booming 20th-century progress, Theodore Roosevelt-politician and soldier, naturalist and historian-was still a young man when he left the Oval Office, and he spent the decade after his presidency exploring the world... and sharing his experiences in his inimitable prose. This two-in-one volume includes an account of a zoogeographic reconnoissance through the Brazilian hinterland Roosevelt undertook in 1913 for the benefit of the American Museum of Natural History in New York, and a collection of essays on natural history from throughout Roosevelts life, including Birds of the Adirondack, written when he was only 18, and The Wild Ostrich, completed just months before his death. Roosevelts real-life exploits and observations of the natural world remain entertaining and insightful today, and continue to illuminate the life and character of one of the great American personalities. Also available from Cosimo Classics '