Negative Positive
Title: No Title
Review: Soooo glad to have finished this one. Written in 1909, 1910, immediately after Roosevelt left the Presidency and went to Africa in March, 1909, for the Smithsonian, to shoot a zillion animals and bring back their hides and heads for the collections. He went with his son Kermit, who shot most of the very fuzzy black and white pictures in the book, and more animals even than his father. He was about 20 then. It is a picture of colonial East Africa at that time, and of Western man's thinking about the black natives, who were "children". Thankfully, that sort of mind-set has disappeared. But you can see here that Roosevelt had it in spades. Too bad some of his bearers did not write their own accounts.
Is the review positive or negative? 