River of doubt
River of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey Candice Millard,
Publisher: New York : Doubleday, 2005.
ISBN: 0385507968
DDC: 918.113045
LCC: F2546
Summary:
"After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his
sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the
first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon.
Together with his son Kermit and Brazil's most famous explorer,
Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so
great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he
changed the map of the Western Hemisphere forever." "Along the way,
Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships,
losing their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and
enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder
within their own ranks. Three men died, and Roosevelt was brought to
the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these
extraordinary events in a nonfiction narrative thriller that happens
to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived."--BOOK
JACKET.
The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of
one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, a black, uncharted
tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most
treacherous jungles in the world. Indians armed with poison-tipped
arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glide through its waters;
boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. After
his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on
the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first
descent of an unmapped tributary of the Amazon. He and his men faced
an unbelievable series of hardships, losing their canoes and supplies
to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring starvation, Indian
attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. Three
men died, and Roosevelt was brought to the brink of suicide. Yet he
accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe
it.--From publisher description.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [395]-402) and index.
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