Roosevelt's Beast
Book (italiano):
<DIV><B>Roosevelt's Beast is a reimagining of Teddy and Kermit Roosevelt’s ill-fated 1914 Amazon expedition: a new novel from the acclaimed Louis Bayard <BR><BR></B>1914. Brazil’s <I>Rio da Dúvida</I>, the River of Doubt. Plagued by hunger and suffering the lingering effects of malaria, Colonel 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 the Colonel are kidnapped by a mysterious Amazonian tribe, they soon discover the price of their freedom. They must find and kill a ravenous beast – a beast that has never been seen and that leaves no tracks. <BR><BR>With his characteristically rich storytelling and a touch of old-fashioned horror, the bestselling and critically acclaimed Louis Bayard turns the well-known story of the Roosevelt-Rondon expedition on its head and anatomizes the demons that can haunt us from birth to death. </DIV>
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