{"product_id":"the-naturalist-theodore-roosevelt","title":"The Naturalist: Theodore Roosevelt","description":"\u003cp\u003ePerhaps no American president is more associated with nature and wildlife than Theodore Roosevelt, a prodigious hunter and adventurer and an ardent conservationist. We think of Roosevelt as an original, yet in The Naturalist , Darrin Lunde shows how from his earliest days Roosevelt actively modeled himself in the proud tradition of museum naturalists—the men who pioneered a key branch of American biology through their desire to collect animal specimens and develop a taxonomy of the natural world. The influence these men would have on Roosevelt would shape not just his personality but his career, informing his work as a politician and statesman and ultimately affecting generations of Americans' relationship to this country's wilderness. Pulling from Roosevelt's diaries and expedition journals, Lunde constructs a brilliantly researched, singularly insightful history that reveals the roots of Roosevelt’s enduring naturalist legacy through the group little-known men whose work and lives defined his own.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003e352 pages, paperback \u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThis is the November 4, 2026 Glacier National Park Conservancy Book Club selection. Register for the Zoom book club discussion with author Darrin Lunde \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/glacier.org\/glacier-book-club\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003ehere\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n  ","brand":"Glacier Conservancy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44842038362181,"sku":"803665","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5311\/4437\/files\/SNY02000__04834.1762558325.1280.1280.jpg?v=1777406937","url":"https:\/\/shop.glacier.org\/products\/the-naturalist-theodore-roosevelt","provider":"Glacier National Park Conservancy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}