Cleared for Strange Ports

Kelly green cloth boards, with debossed circle on the front cover with gold gilt sailing ship. Spine has gold gilt text with minor blemishes but no wear to the top or bottom of the back strip. Front and rear boards have light rubbing but no wear and only slight blemishes to the lower front board. Corners are all sharp with no wear but the front lower corner has been bumped thus has a small crease. Spine is straight with no cracking at the endpapers with the hinges firmly attached. Text block is solid with deckled front edge. Age tanning throughout. Tissue guard intact over the frontispiece illustration. All interior pages are clean with no tears, cracks, or previous owner marks. Twenty black and white photograph illustrations complement the stories.

The travelers, authors, and their stories:

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt (1861 – 1948), was the second wife of President Theodore Roosevelt (1858 – 1919) after his first wife died. After Theodore's death she travel aboard to escape her grief, collecting her experiences and those of the other family members from between 1920 and 1926 to include in this book. Her contribution: The Odyssey of a Grandmother.

Kermit Roosevelt (1889 – 1943) was the second son of President Roosevelt. He was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. He explored two continents with his father, graduated from Harvard College and served in both World Wars (with both the British and U.S. Armies). Kermit fought a lifelong battle with depression and died by suicide while serving in WWII as a US Army Major, Aleutian Islands, Alaska. Stories: Hunting Amid Korean Snows, On the Soviet Trans-Siberian, Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright, Christmas Week in Mowgli Land.

Belle Wyatt Willard Roosevelt (1892 – 1968) hotel heiress married Kermit Roosevelt in 1914 in Madrid, Spain where her father was an ambassador. Story: From the Land Where The Elephants Are.

Ethel Carow Roosevelt Derby (1891 – 1977) was the youngest daughter (fourth child) and married Richard Derby, a surgeon, in 1913. During WWI she served as a nurse in France at the same hospital as her surgeon husband. She went on to become involved with the Red Cross for sixty years and had her portrait painted in her Red Cross uniform.

Richard Derby husband of Ethel Roosevelt. Stories: With Rifle and Camera on the Kenai, The Beach-Combing Bears of Sukluk.