The 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.
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.
