Theodore Roosevelt's Wilderness Writings

Theodore Roosevelt (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

230 Seiten

2025 | New Edition
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
9781496240521 (ISBN)

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Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States, was not only the most famous hunter of his generation of Americans, but he was also among its best-informed and most popular outdoor writers. Edmund Heller, the well-known Smithsonian biologist who accompanied Roosevelt on his famous African expedition, said that the former president was the world’s foremost authority on large mammals. He was also an avid bibliophile and had what may have been the finest large mammal library in North America in the early 1900s. Roosevelt communicated with authorities-both sportsmen and scientists-in all parts of the world. From his lifelong study and enthusiasm for outdoor adventure came a host of durable writings, gathered together here in a collection that celebrates the natural world.

Roosevelt’s commitment to saving wild places is one of his most lasting contributions as a U.S. president. This collection combines classic hunting and nature narratives with his equally durable advocacy of wilderness protection for the sake of personal and national character. This new edition features an introduction by Paul Schullery that provides historical and ecological context.

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919), twenty-sixth president of the United States, won the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1906 for mediating an end to the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5). His three dozen books include The Wilderness Hunter, The Rough Riders (Bison Books, 1998), Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail (Bison Books, 1983), and A Book-Lover’s Holiday in the Open. Paul Schullery is the author, coauthor, or editor of more than fifty books on history, nature, and outdoor sport, including The Bear Doesn’t Know: Life and Wonder in Bear Country (Bison Books, 2021) and Searching for Yellowstone: Ecology and Wonder in the Last Wilderness.

List of Illustrations

Editor’s Note on the Text

Introduction

Part 1. Wilderness Adventures

Chapter 1. The Joy of the Wild

Chapter 2. The American Wilderness: Wilderness Hunters and Wilderness Game

Chapter 3. The Big-Horn Sheep

Chapter 4. In the Louisiana Canebrakes

Chapter 5. Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest

Part 2. Wilderness Preservation

Chapter 6. A National Park Service

Chapter 7. John Muir: An Appreciation

Chapter 8. Wilderness Reserves: The Yellowstone Park

Chapter 9. Bird Reserves at the Mouth of the Mississippi

Chapter 10. Grand Canyon Speech, 1903

Part 3. Natural History

Chapter 11. Small Country Neighbors

Chapter 12. The Wapiti or Round-Horned Elk

Chapter 13. On the Cattle Ranges

Chapter 14. My Life as a Naturalist

Notes

Sources of the Readings

Erscheinungsdatum	10.04.2025
Zusatzinfo	2 illustrations, 1 map
Verlagsort	Lincoln
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Anthologien
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte
	Reisen ► Sport- / Aktivreisen ► Nord- / Mittelamerika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-13	9781496240521 / 9781496240521
Zustand	Neuware