Description: "For lovers of history, nature, and adventure, the stunning true story of Theodore Roosevelt's sons and their 1929 Himalayan expedition to prove the existence of the beishung, the panda bear, to the western world..."--Provided by publisher.
Brief description: Nathalia Holt, PhD, is the New York Times bestselling author of Rise of the Rocket Girls, Wise Gals, The Queens of Animation, and Cured. She has written for numerous publications including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, Slate, Popular Science, PBS, and Time. She is a former fellow at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard University. She lives with her husband and their two daughters in Pacific Grove, California. Find out more at NathaliaHolt.com.
Review Quotes: "Readers will vanish, along with the Roosevelt brothers, into a world of hidden dangers and astonishing delights. The panda lurks in every corner of Nathalia Holt's The Beast in the Clouds, an exquisitely crafted book packed with adventure, mystery, and thorny dilemmas about what it means to hold all life sacred."
--Melissa L. Sevigny, author of Brave the Wild River