The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey

Description

At as soon as a fantastic adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the actual tale of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of probably the most unhealthy rivers on the earth.

The River of Doubt—this is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes thru probably the most treacherous jungles on the planet. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows hang-out its shadows; piranhas waft thru its waters; boulder-strewn rapids flip the river right into a roiling cauldron.

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his points of interest on the so much punishing bodily problem he may just to find, the primary descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. At the side of his son Kermit and Brazil’s so much well-known explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt entire a feat so nice that many on the time refused to consider it. Within the procedure, he modified the map of the western hemisphere without end.

Along the way in which, Roosevelt and his males confronted an improbable collection of hardships, shedding their canoes and provides to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring hunger, Indian assault, illness, drowning, and a homicide inside of their very own ranks. 3 males died, and Roosevelt was once dropped at the threshold of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive those odd occasions in an impressive nonfiction narrative mystery that occurs to add probably the most well-known American citizens who ever lived.

From the hovering great thing about the Amazon rain woodland to the darkest night time of Theodore Roosevelt’s existence, here’s Candice Millard’s wonderful debut.
TR’s so much enjoyable, unhealthy and treacherous adventure ever
Adventures so hair elevating, difficult and horrifying that the tale was once regarded as to be adorned or a simply undeniable lie for years
A gripping and suspense stuffed learn
Onerous to place down
Writer – Candice Millard