In this interview, I chat with Nathalia Holt about The Beast in the Clouds, how the panda bear was the large mammal unknown to science, the Roosevelt brothers' unlikely but successful excursion, how they changed the way the world viewed conservation, how she learned about this story, finding a publisher for this tale, and much more.
Nathalia's recommended reads are:
- Palace of Deception by Darrin Lunde
- On a Mission: The Smithsonian History of U.S. Women Astronauts by Valerie Neal
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Nathalia Holt
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NATHALIA HOLT, Ph.D. 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, CA. Please visit her at NathaliaHolt.com, IG: @nathaliaholt, TW/X: @nathaliaholt.
she is the author of THE BEAST IN THE CLOUDS.
