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Roosevelt's Beast (2014)

by Louis Bayard(Favorite Author)

3.33 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0805090703 (ISBN13: 9780805090703)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Henry Holt and Co.

review 1: Bayard's niche is to take historically researched events involving semi-famous people and add a little weirdness to the story. I recently read Candice Millard's well documented River of Doubt - about Theodore Roosevelt's epic exploratory of an uncharted South American river. Bayard has reconstructed part of the voyage, but has added a fictional meeting of Theodore and his son Kermit with a group of natives known as Cinta Larga.
review 2: Haunting and imaginative what-if taking place during TR's successful but ultimately fatal charting of a tributary of the Amazon River. What if TR and melancholy son Kermit went off on their own looking for food for the expedition and ran into natives and a mythical beast. A lot of the framework is based on reality: the tribe ex... moreists, the mythical beast is a real mythical beast, and someone did go off to find food but came back unharmed. If you haven't read the beautiful The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey by Candice Ballard, I suggest reading that before Roosevelt's Beast in order to get the full impact of this Dan Simmons-like supernaturally inclined (think The Terror) fictional re-creation. less

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