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Elephants: Experiences of a Representative of the American Museum of Natural History in Search of Specimens in the Forests of British East Africa
Carl Ethan Akeley (1864 – 1926) was a noted African big-game hunter, taxidermist, sculptor, biologist, conservationist, inventor, and nature photographer, noted for his contributions to American museums, most notably to the Field Museum of Natural History and the American Museum of Natural History. He is considered the father of modern taxidermy.
In 1909 Akeley accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on a year-long expedition in Africa funded by the Smithsonian Institution and began working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where his efforts can still be seen in the Akeley African Hall of Mammals.
In this book Akeley covers his experiences of a Representative of the American Museum of Natural History in search of elephant specimens in the forests of British East Africa, where he details his hunt for elephants including: a herd of seven hundred elephants on the move, how the great animals are hunted and how they sometimes turn the tables on their hunters, as well as a near tragedy on the slopes of mount Kenia in which the author was charged and mauled by an elephant---barely escaping with his life. The stories are told by a seasoned big game hunter who Roosevelt admired for his feat of having once choked, and thus dispatched with his bare hands, a vicious leopard that had attacked.
This book originally published by Doubleday, Page & Company in 1921 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
In 1909 Akeley accompanied Theodore Roosevelt on a year-long expedition in Africa funded by the Smithsonian Institution and began working at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, where his efforts can still be seen in the Akeley African Hall of Mammals.
In this book Akeley covers his experiences of a Representative of the American Museum of Natural History in search of elephant specimens in the forests of British East Africa, where he details his hunt for elephants including: a herd of seven hundred elephants on the move, how the great animals are hunted and how they sometimes turn the tables on their hunters, as well as a near tragedy on the slopes of mount Kenia in which the author was charged and mauled by an elephant---barely escaping with his life. The stories are told by a seasoned big game hunter who Roosevelt admired for his feat of having once choked, and thus dispatched with his bare hands, a vicious leopard that had attacked.
This book originally published by Doubleday, Page & Company in 1921 has been reformatted for the Kindle and may contain an occasional defect from the original publication or from the reformatting.
34 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 8, 2015
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