The Miss Stone Affair

Download or read book The Miss Stone Affair written by Teresa Carpenter and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 3, 1901, a Protestant missionary named Ellen Stone set out on horseback across the mountainous hinterlands of Balkan Macedonia and was ambushed by a band of armed revolutionaries. In The Miss Stone Affair, Teresa Carpenter re-creates an event that captured the attention of the world and posed a dilemma for incoming president Theodore Roosevelt. Should he send in the Navy or not? And, if so, send it where? Drawing upon a wealth of contemporary correspondence and documents, Carpenter constructs a narrative that is suspenseful, harrowing, and at times even comical. It is a story for our time.