Roosevelt's Beast

Name: Roosevelt's Beast
Brand: Dreamscape Media
Availability: InStock
Author: Louis Bayard
ISBN: 9781629234472

Author: Louis Bayard

Narrator: John Pruden

Unabridged: 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Published: 03/18/2014

Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction

Synopsis

1914. Brazil's Rio da Duvida, the River of Doubt. Plagued by hunger and suffering the lingering effects of malaria, Theodore Roosevelt, his son Kermit, and the other members of the now-ravaged Roosevelt-Rondon scientific expedition are traveling deeper and deeper into the jungle. When Kermit and Teddy are kidnapped by a never-before-seen Amazonian tribe, the great hunters are asked one thing in exchange for their freedom: find and kill a beast that leaves no tracks and that no member of the tribe has ever seen. But what are the origins of this beast, and how do they escape its brutal wrath?

About Louis Bayard

Louis Bayard is a New York Times Notable Book author and has been shortlisted for both the Edgar and Dagger awards for his historical thrillers, which include The Pale Blue Eye and Mr. Timothy. He lives in Washington, DC, and teaches at George Washington University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jon Recluse

A fictionalized retelling of Teddy Roosevelt's ill fated 1914 expedition down Brazil's 'River of Doubt', that finds the former president and his son Kermit kidnapped by an undiscovered Amazonian tribe to help them kill an unknown creature that is suddenly hunting in the jungle......something that ki......more

Goodreads review by Jonathan

See, this is why I haven't written a novel. Okay, maybe it's only part of why. But *you* read this first line, and tell me that doesn't make every beginning you've ever jotted down seem a little...inadequate. I thoroughly enjoyed this. I have similarly enjoyed other fictionalized historical accounts......more