The Works of Theodore Roosevelt - VolumeCosimo, Inc., 1. maj 2006 - 440 strani We took breakfast-the eleven o'clock Brazilian breakfast-on Colonel Rondon's 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 one's aim. -from Through the Brazilian Wilderness As much a symbol of the nation's 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 Roosevelt's life, including "Birds of the Adirondack," written when he was only 18, and "The Wild Ostrich," completed just months before his death. Roosevelt's 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: Roosevelt's Letters to His Children, A Book-Lover's Holidays in the Open, America and the World War, Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail, The Strenuous Life: Essays and Addresses, and Historic Towns: New York OF INTEREST TO: Roosevelt fans, readers of autobiography, amateur naturalists, armchair travelers American icon THEODORE ROOSEVELT (1858-1919) was 26th President of the United States, serving from 1901 to 1909, and the first American to win a Nobel Prize, in 1906, when he was awarded the Peace Prize for mediating the Russo-Japanese War. He is the author of 35 books. |
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... tropical America where primeval conditions existed , Colonel Roosevelt , who was more than occupied with preparations for his absence , left the selection of the exact route to be traversed to his associates . The proposal of Zahm fell ...
... tropical America where primeval conditions existed , Colonel Roosevelt , who was more than occupied with preparations for his absence , left the selection of the exact route to be traversed to his associates . The proposal of Zahm fell ...
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... tropical ex- ploration can realize fully the difficulties encountered by the party that descended the Rio Roosevelt . The journey was made during the period of rains , and while this season was the most favorable for navigation , it was ...
... tropical ex- ploration can realize fully the difficulties encountered by the party that descended the Rio Roosevelt . The journey was made during the period of rains , and while this season was the most favorable for navigation , it was ...
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... tropical South America . Fortunately , however , there is on record a stenographic report of an informal address which Cherrie made before the Roosevelt Memorial Meeting of the Explorers ' Club on March 1 , 1919 , and the following ...
... tropical South America . Fortunately , however , there is on record a stenographic report of an informal address which Cherrie made before the Roosevelt Memorial Meeting of the Explorers ' Club on March 1 , 1919 , and the following ...
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... tropical American forests . Miller was a young man , born in Indiana , an en- thusiastic naturalist with good literary as well as scientific training . He was at the time in the Guiana forests , and joined us at Barbadoes . Cherrie was ...
... tropical American forests . Miller was a young man , born in Indiana , an en- thusiastic naturalist with good literary as well as scientific training . He was at the time in the Guiana forests , and joined us at Barbadoes . Cherrie was ...
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... tropics . Like most of the field naturalists I have met , he was an unusually efficient and fearless man ; and willy - nilly he had been forced at times to vary his career by taking part in insurrections . Twice he had been behind the ...
... tropics . Like most of the field naturalists I have met , he was an unusually efficient and fearless man ; and willy - nilly he had been forced at times to vary his career by taking part in insurrections . Twice he had been behind the ...
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With a MuleTrain Across Nhambiquara Land | 167 |
The River of Doubt | 199 |
Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest | 231 |
ical Results of the Expedition | 263 |
The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer | 280 |
The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wil | 292 |
My Letter of May I to General Lauro | 313 |
PAGE | 317 |
The Wild Ostrich | 361 |
Men Who Misinterpret Nature | 367 |
NatureFakers | 375 |
My Life as a Naturalist | 384 |
My Trip in Africa | 394 |
The Summer Birds of the Adirondacks | 402 |
Notes on Some of the Birds of Oyster Bay Long Island | 407 |
Χ President Roosevelts List of Birds | 409 |
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Stran 199 - ... sick. Rondon, Lyra, and the doctor took one of their own tents. The things that we carried were necessities — food, medicines, bedding, instruments for determining the altitude and longitude and latitude — except a few books, each in small compass: Lyra's were in German, consisting of two tiny volumes of Goethe and Schiller ; Kermit's were in Portuguese ; mine, all in English, included the last two volumes of Gibbon, the plays of Sophocles, More's "Utopia...
Stran 377 - ... a vocabulary of their language, a code of their laws, and a sketch of their religion, to make it the most complete natural history of that animal which can possibly be offered to the public.
Stran 122 - beneficent Nature ' could not deceive even the least wise being if he once saw for himself the iron cruelty of life in the tropics.
Stran 368 - that some of these men who are writing nature stories and putting the word 'truth' prominently in their prefaces know the heart of the wild things. Neither do I believe that certain men. . .have succeeded in learning the real secrets of the life of the wilderness. They don't know, or if they do know, they indulge in the wildest exaggeration under the mistaken notion that they are strengthening their stories. "As for the matter of giving these books to...
Stran 369 - Take the chapter from Jack London's "White Fang" that tells the story of a fight between the great northern wolf, White Fang, and a bulldog. Reading this, I can't believe that Mr. London knows much about the wolves, and I am certain that he knows nothing about their fighting, or as a realist he would not tell this tale.
Stran 314 - Rondon's dog running ahead of him while hunting, was shot by two Indians ; by his death he in all probability saved the life of his master. We have put on the map a river about 1500...
Stran 151 - Gy-Parana, in which case its course must be very short; it might flow into the Madeira low down, in which case its course would be very long; or, which was unlikely, it might flow into the Tapajos. There was another river, of which Colonel Rondon had come across the head-waters, whose course...
Stran 180 - The route lay through a land inhabited by Nhambiqueras, natives of the most primitive type. Both sexes were naked, and " the men had holes pierced through the septum of the nose and through the upper lip, and wore a straw through each hole ". One wonders what the origin of this custom could have been.