The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers' Deadly Quest to Find the Mythical Giant Panda
Immersive, sometimes harrowing ... Engrossing dynamic ... Holt leans heavily on the Roosevelts’ 1929 memoir...which can sometimes give her book a derivative feeling ... Many of these digressions add color and context, but some... seem like padding ... Absorbing.
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Holt...draws on the participants’ writings...to capture the tedium and trials of life on the trail ... Holt exaggerates.
Both stirring and tragic, this is an excellently told story about an overlooked segment of history.
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