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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780767913737 |
Powells.com Staff Pick
Well researched and skillfully written, this commanding account of achievement and calamity retraces Roosevelt's perilous expedition of the uncharted Amazon. A dazzling gem of history, Millard's impeccable narrative brims with imagery and tension.
Recommended by Michal, Powells.com
This true story traces the exploration of a previously un-navigated tributary of the Amazon River by Theodore Roosevelt, accompanied by his son Kermit. The trip was extremely dangerous, and Candice Millard tells the story with detail that makes you cringe while at the same time compels you to turn the page to see what happens next. By the end, I felt I really knew the men on the expedition and had gained a much deeper understanding of and respect for the Amazon region.
Recommended by Gloria, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)
Synopses & Reviews
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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, Cândido 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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Ann Riddle, January 11, 2007 (view all comments by Ann Riddle)
The River of Doubt is a great read! The information that accompanies the finds of Roosevelt that give the scientific info of each species, as we know it today, make it a natural science text with all the excitement of a true life adventure.
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Tim Dunn, December 12, 2006 (view all comments by Tim Dunn)
A most exciting trip in years. Once the crew got on the river, I felt the current carry me through the book.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780767913737
- Subtitle:
- Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Broadway Books
- Subject:
- Presidents & Heads of State
- Subject:
- Latin America - South America
- Subject:
- Expeditions & Discoveries
- Copyright:
- 2005
- Publication Date:
- October 2006
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 416
- Dimensions:
- 8.01x5.27x.96 in. .77 lbs.
