num_pages: 276
description: On orders of President Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Walker and his botanist uncle, William, set out to search the southern wilderness for a live specimen of Megatherium, the giant ground sloth, and suffer kidnapping at the hands of pirates and torture by redskin savages
language: English
title: The Embarrassment of Riches
titlecomplete: The Embarrassment of Riches
genres: Fiction, Historical Fiction
ratings_count: 135
publisher: Doubleday