Candice Millard
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
- ISBN 13:
- 9780767913737
- author:
- Candice Millard
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Broadway Books (A Division of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2006
- Pages:
- 432
- Genre:
- Biographies & Autobiographies Biographies & True Stories
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's presidential ambitions were dealt a crushing blow. Yet, he refused to be defeated. Instead, he set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find: the first descent of an unmapped Amazonian tributary. With his son Kermit and Brazil's most famous explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt embarked on a perilous journey that would test his courage, endurance, and resolve. The River of Doubt is a harrowing account of Roosevelt's harrowing adventure, replete with whitewater rapids, starvation, Indian attacks, disease, and even murder. The journey was so treacherous that many doubted its feasibility, and Roosevelt's own men were pushed to the brink of despair. Yet, through sheer determination and grit, Roosevelt and his companions overcame seemingly insurmountable obstacles, forever changing the map of the western hemisphere.
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