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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

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Without delay an unimaginable journey narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of probably the most harmful rivers on earth. The River of Doubt; it’s a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes by means of probably the most treacherous jungles on the planet. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows hang-out its shadows; piranhas glide by means of its waters; boulder-strewn rapids flip the river right into a roiling cauldron.After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on essentially the most punishing bodily problem he may discover, the primary descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Collectively together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most well-known explorer, Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt achieved a feat so nice that many on the time refused to imagine it. Within the course of, he modified the map of the western hemisphere endlessly.Alongside the best way, Roosevelt and his males confronted an unbelievable collection of hardships, dropping their canoes and provides to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring hunger, Indian assault, illness, drowning, and a homicide inside their very own ranks. Three males died, and Roosevelt was dropped at the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary occasions in a robust nonfiction narrative thriller that occurs to characteristic probably the most well-known People who ever lived.From the hovering great thing about the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night time of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, right here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut.

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