The Man Who Fell to Earth - Walter Tevis - 1981 Bantam Books Paperback Lucy Fitch Perkins Colonel Roosevelt begins with a

Colonel Roosevelt begins with a prologue recounting what TR called his “journey into the Pleistocene”—a yearlong safari through East Africa

avoid shocks

only aggravated a militaristic national temperament

shaky leadership

- from The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

The Man Who Fell to Earth - Walter Tevis - 1981 Bantam Books Paperback Lucy Fitch Perkins Colonel Roosevelt begins with aCondition: Acceptable. Please see the images for more details. Cover art: Blurb: "In The Man Who Fell to Earth, Walter Tevis has written an utterly realistic novel about an alien human on Earth. Realistic in the way Newton interfaces with human society. Realistic in its portrait of his strengths and failures and confusion. Realistic in its depiction of what it's like to be an alien. Realistic enough to become a metaphor for something inside us all,