The River of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey / Candice Millard.
The River of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey / Candice Millard.
Alternate Title
:
Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
By
:
Millard, Candice.
Publication Date
:
2005
Publication Information
:
New York : Broadway Books,
Physical Description
:
416 p. : ill.
Subject Term
:
Rain forests -- Amazon River Region.
Natural history -- Amazon River Valley.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Geographic Term
:
Roosevelt River (Brazil) -- Description and travel.
Amazon River Valley -- Description and travel.
Summary
:
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, CÒandido 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.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780767913737
General Note
:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Buchans (CBN) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 918.11 M61 | Checked In |
Stephenville Crossing (WSX) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 918.11 M61 | Checked In |