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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.The River of Doubt--it is 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, 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 powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt's life, here is Candice Millard's dazzling debut.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Description and travel, Presidents, Travel, Rain forests, Natural history, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914), Biography, History, Roosevelt, theodore, 1858-1919, South america, description and travel, Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81028089, Open Library Staff Picks, Roosevelt-rondon scientific expedition (1913-1914), Presidents, united states, Roosevelt river (brazil), Brazil, description and travel, Amazon river and valley, nyt:expeditions-disasters-and-adventures=2015-01-11, New York Times bestsellerShowing 4 featured editions. View all 11 editions?
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River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
2006, Little, Brown Book Group Limited, Little, Brown, Little, Brown and Company (UK)
in English
0316027146 9780316027144
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River of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
2005, Random House Large Print
in English
0375728430 9780375728433
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The river of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
2005, Broadway Books
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0767913736 9780767913737
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River of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
2005, Doubleday
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0385507968 9780385507967
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