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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
1914. Brazil's Rio da Dúvida, 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.
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.
- Sales Rank: #298026 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-20
- Released on: 2015-01-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.98" h x .87" w x 5.77" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 320 pages
From Booklist
In 1914, Teddy Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, set off to map Brazil’s Rio da Duvida (River of Doubt). What was supposed to be a lark for the “Colonel” and his son ended up almost killing both of them. Indeed, the former president never completely recovered. What happened on the expedition is the subject of many memoirs and scholarly books. But Bayard decided to take three days out of this time period and have the Colonel and Kermit kidnapped by the Cinta Larga, a fierce indigenous tribe. The tribe is being ravaged by a “beast” that kills its prey, guts it, drinks its blood, and then leaves nothing but a husk. The beast leaves no footprints, and no one has actually seen it. The chief will release Kermit and his father if they kill the beast. The Colonel sees it as just another hunting expedition, but Kermit (the Roosevelt in the title) sees it as something much more, something that will haunt him the rest of his life. Bayard has written a riveting thriller and psychological study wrapped around historical events and people and gives the reader a real existential puzzle to put together. --Elizabeth Dickie
Review
“Bayard describes the toll on survivors [of the Roosevelt/Randon expedition] with wonderful dry wit...A mystery in the Arthur Conan Doyle tradition, had Sherlock and Watson been masochistic enough to volunteer for this dreadful trek...Bayard gives us a compassionate, unsentimental portrait of a son who would forever live in the shadow of a colossal father.” ―Washington Post
“Louis Bayard's imagination is as wild, uncharted, and magnificent as the Amazon, and his tale is as lush as a rainforest. I loved Roosevelt's Beast and was under its spell from Bayard's wondrous - and haunting - first sentence.” ―Chris Bohjalian, bestselling author of Midwives and The Sandcastle Girls
“[Roosevelt's Beast] never fails to deliver chills and peril in a claustrophobic jungle atmosphere...This journey into the heart of darkness strikes enough notes that a variety of readers will find an element to tempt them, whether it's the terrifying unknown or the simple desires of the human heart.” ―Shelf Awareness
“Bayard's heart-of-darkness saga is impressive--blood and sacrifice, primitive peoples and Roosevelt courage.... [He] exactingly chronicles the hardships of charting the river, right down to the damp, dangers and drudgery of the Amazonian jungle... [Roosevelt's Beast] is a suspense-filled re-imagining of history deepened by a confrontation with evil's supernatural presence.” ―Kirkus Reviews
“Bayard has written a riveting thriller and psychological study wrapped around historical events and people and gives the reader a real existential puzzle to put together.” ―Elizabeth Dickie, Booklist
“For the past decade or so Louis Bayard has been taking the subjects of 'genre fiction'--from Gothic murder to jungle adventure--and rejuvenating them with all the skills of a literary novelist. Roosevelt's Beast combines dizzying narrative energy with real psychological subtlety and stylistic elegance. It's an immensely satisfying book.” ―Thomas Mallon, author of Henry and Clara and Watergate: A Novel
“Louis Bayard's gift is to seamlessly merge careful research with the fantastic, the horrible, the sublime, and the universal. Roosevelt's Beast is an adventure story in the grand style, from a time when the rivers of the Amazon jungle were as unmapped as the depravity of the human heart--had Kipling ever turned his mind to the horror genre beyond short stories, this gripping novel might have been the result.” ―Lyndsay Faye, author of The Gods of Gotham
“An edge-of-your-seat thriller with all the twists and turns of an unexplored river, Roosevelt's Beast is also something greater: a triumphant proof that the truths of art can surpass those of history.” ―Kermit Roosevelt III, great-great grandson of Theodore Roosevelt, and author of In the Shadow of the Law
About the Author
Louis Bayard is the author of the critically acclaimed The School of Night and The Black Tower, the national bestseller The Pale Blue Eye, and Mr. Timothy, a New York Times Notable Book. He has written for Salon, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, among others. He lives in Washington, D.C.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
Love and The Beast
By Jim Schmidt
"Here was the thing about traveling down an uncharted river: You could only say how long you'd been traveling; you could never say how long it would be." - Louis Bayard, Roosevelt's Beast
I can tell you the last time I read a novel in just 2 or 3 days...it was in October 2011 when I read School of Night, the last book by Louis Bayard, my favorite writer. Ever since then I've been waiting for his next, and Roosevelt's Beast did not disappoint.
It's so much like his other stories and yet - refreshingly so - also so different...the elements of father-and-son relationships and haunting by family ghosts were explored in Mr. Timothy as they are here; the bookends of a Prologue and Afterword of a man's final days were explored in Pale Blue Eye as they are here...still there is more of horror and the supernatural here than in his others.
This book is decidedly the saddest of the books of his I've read and yet there are so many scenes of joy that make your heart soar...chief among these was a rousing group recitation of Gunga Din...tender moments between father and son...a thrilling scene in which love conquers evil.
If you read the book, keep a dictionary close by. You'll see words you may have never read before...I certainly did...and yet, when he chooses them, its not to show off...you'll see that he has chosen the very best words he could...no other words would do! One thing I appreciated so much is that he gave brief translations of Portugese throughout when it is used...so many writers use foreign language in their narrative but give teh reader no clue as to what was said...it's as if it's an inside joke between the writer and the few readers who may "get it"...but Bayard is generous and let's you in...I also love how he uses almost ancient words and phrases...words that should never have fallen from our vocabulary because they are just so lovely: "plash" instead of "splash"..."plighted no troth"...and more
The research is wonderful...apart from the vocabulary, you'll be introduced to the exotic: exotic creatures, exotic plants, exotic places, exotic peoples...I do certainly want to read more about the Roosevelt-Rondon expedition...I was astounded that it sometimes took them days to go only a few hundred yards.
And through it all, you take a journey - spiral - with the main character, Kermit Roosevelt...and like so many of Bayard's books, courage and heroism meet with tragedy...but you'll have to decide for yourself whether tragedy wins in this case.
The book brought back memories of a 5-day long canoe trip I took with Boy Scouts as a teenager...these were not uncharted waters but there's something universal about a long journey down a river...the doubts, the accidents, the arguments, the poratges, the victories and defeats, the machinations of the party...even on a lovely Missouri river.
If there's a fault, it's that Roosevelt's Beast is the shortest of his books, and there's more internal dialogue and less of a universe of characters than in his other literary mysteries...but the intimacy with the main character is more intense in this one.
Highly recommended...and waiting for what comes next.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
A psychological spin on Roosevelt's Amazon River exploration
By Stephen M. Smits
Bayard takes a fictionalized spin on the true life adventure of Teddy Roosevelt and his son Kermit on the exploration of the River of Doubt in the Amazon in 1914. The best non-fiction account of this nearly disastrous trip down a previously unexplored tributary of the Amazon River is Candace Millard's "The River of Doubt". Bayard adds a story in which the Roosevelt's are captured by an unknown tribe. To secure their release the Roosevelt's must kill a "Beast" that has been ravaging members of the tribe. They succeed in hunting and killing a large Howler monkey, but Kermit realizes later that the "beast" has inhabited the monkey; that it is a vicious presence that can work on living creatures to unleash savagery.
Kermit is the narrator of the tale and he understands the nature of the evil because he has a deeply troubled psyche himself. He has learned of the plight of Teddy's brother Elliot whose mental issues drove him to an early death from alcoholism. Elliot is not spoken of by the family, but Kermit learns of him from outside sources. Kermit identifies with Elliot as he has experienced mental unrest throughout his own life. For Kermit the "beast" is within and its control over one at times overwhelms. A portion of Kermit's anguish stems from being the son of a vigorous and famous father, although he is devoted to him.
The beast in Kermit, while dormant at times, never leaves him. By the end of his life, Kermit is as consumed by the debilitating power of the beast as was his uncle Elliot.
This interesting novel combines fact and fiction quite compellingly. The exoticism of the rain forest, the arduous journey down the river (during which TR nearly died) and the mysteriousness of inner forces which can control parts of us are well-assembled in this novel.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Historically Provoking
By Stoney
It has been the internet fashion lately to make Theodore Roosevelt out to be a superhuman... nay, a suprahuman, the prototype for the Americans we could have been. The truth is, TR was a man - an incredibly gifted orator, politician, hunter and soldier, but a real man who suffered real hurts and real problems.
The value of Bayard's "Roosevelt's Beast" lies in seeing the former President as a real man behind a legend. The reader is also treated to the thoughts and feelings that a son of the great man might have carried. I said "the value"... what I meant was "the only value". The story is utter crap.
If this had been a story about some non-hero Joe Schmo, I would have been done by page 50. Some horrible beast in the jungle kills in spectacular fashion and drinks blood Cool! But once the monster is freed upon an unwitting civilization, it... just... sort of... gives bad dreams. Occasionally.
Read it for the portrayal of the Roosevelts, father and son. Ignore the stuff about the monster and the interminable nightmares.
With Roosevelt, three stars. Without Roosevelt, one star for ... coherent writing.
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