Hunting big game in the wilds of Africa : containing thrilling adventures of the famous Roosevelt expedition ... the whole comprising a vast treasury of all that is marvelous and wonderful in darkest Africa
A 1909 Philadelphia adventure book by J. Martin Miller, the Smithsonian copy covering big-game hunting and the Roosevelt African expedition for a general popular readership. Its engravings are black-and-white woodcut-style scenes of hunters, porters and animals, rendered with dense hatching and dramatic diagonal composition that a designer could borrow for vintage adventure graphics, with several plates printed sideways on the page.
