· American Hippopotamus by Jon Mooallem was an entertaining Kindle single (estimated by Amazon at 71 printed pages) about the seemingly fict. I first heard about "American Hippopotamus" through an interview with the author on NPR. It's that kind of story quirky, odd, off-beat, and engaging. It involves a group of men in the time period around , that era of American history when all kinds of impossible-ish things were being thought about, proposed, and even done/5. American Hippopotamus A hundred years ago, in the midst of an American food crisis, two spies who had once sworn to kill each other came together with a plan to feed America: hippo meat. Jon Mooallem The Atavist Magazine Dec 1 h 25 min Permalink.
In American Hippopotamus, author Jon Mooallem recounts this fascinating and altogether quirky time in history. The idea of hippo meat came about at the beginning of the twentieth century. At the. This is a sample of Jon Mooallem's audiobook "American Hippopotamus". FULL AUDIOBOOK available here: bltadwin.ru?id=B00HLRS1R4 ALTE. In American Hippopotamus, Jon Mooallem brings to life a historical saga too preposterous to be fiction—a bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos, but also of a conflicted nation on the threshold of a bewildering new century, deciding what kind of country it would be, and what beasts it would eat.
Author Jon Mooallem’s longform nonfiction multimedia story “American Hippopotamus” published by The Atavist details the origins and tracks the fate of this idea, which ultimately never came to fruition. The piece is a fascinating narrative and profile of two of the proponents of this scheme, who were once enemies fighting on opposite sides of the Boer War: American scout Frederick Russell Burnham (The inspiration for Boy Scouts and Indiana Jones), and Fritz Duquesne. In American Hippopotamus, Jon Mooallem brings to life a historical saga too preposterous to be fiction—a bracing and eccentric epic of espionage and hippos, but also of a conflicted nation on the threshold of a bewildering new century, deciding what kind of country it would be, and what beasts it would eat. This is a sample of Jon Mooallem’s audiobook “American Hippopotamus“. FULL AUDIOBOOK available here: bltadwin.ru?id=B00HLRS1R4 ALTE.
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