I just wanted to touch it
Liam Shaw: To Catch a Panda, 10 September 2026
The Beast in the Clouds: The Roosevelt Brothers’ Deadly Quest to Find the Mythic Giant Panda
by Nathalia Holt.
Atria, 288 pp., £10.99, July,978 1 66802 775 2 Show More
by Nathalia Holt.
Atria, 288 pp., £10.99, July,
“... 1928, when Ted and Kermit Roosevelt, sons of the former president, decided to track one down. As Nathalia Holt explains in The Beast in the Clouds, shooting big game was a Roosevelt family tradition – putatively in the name of science, but also out of a childlike frustration with the day-to-day. In 1925, aged 38 and 36 respectively, Ted and Kermit had ... ”
