The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard
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Author: Candice MillardEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-10-10
ISBN: 0767913736
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: Anchor
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Book Review: Well Written, Fascinating Story
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a gripping account of Roosevelt's harrowing trip down the River of Doubt in 1914. Millard gives thorough, but not overwhelming, background information on each of the expedition's members, the political situation in South America, and the ecosystem of the Amazon River basin. She is a bit repetitive, but it serves to underscore the gravity of the situation and how the explorers were in way over their heads.
I found the parts about the flora and fauna to be more interesting than the expedition, because I kept shaking my head at the party's insanity. I hope this is made into a mini-series on PBS.
If you like a well-written exploration story, you must read Undaunted Courage : Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose, a fascinating account of the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
Summary of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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, C?ndido 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.
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