The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
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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195 Reviews
| From: Amazon Posted: Mar 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
The Inner Man & The Law of the Jungle
Deep into this book and deep into the account of this harrowing journey, Candice Millard uses these four simple words: "low threshold for discomfort." By this point in the account of Theodore Roosevelt's trek down the river, I wonder if we really...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 29, 2008 Type: User Review |
A great book
In 1912, after being defeated as a third-party candidate for president, Theodore Roosevelt was deeply depressed and out of a job. He conceived the notion of going to the Amazon jungle to help map an unknown frontier river. What happened there...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 24, 2008 Type: User Review |
No bedtime reading this!
I generally don't read nonfiction as I can hardly stay awake when I do. But The River of Doubt was not consigned to my bedside stand as a sleeping pill equivalent. What an excellent mix of adventure, history, anthropology, geography, biology, and...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Wonderful and fascinating tale of courage and determination.
Great book, couldn't put it down. Just one observation, why would an author with such good knowledge on Brazil and the Amazon reagion chooses to spell the city of Manaus as Manaos? As a Brazilian I find that strange.
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 19, 2008 Type: User Review |
Fascinating story of survival
This remarkable story tells of how Theodore Roosevelt led an expedition down one of the mightiest Amazon tributaries, and lived to tell about it. Candice Millard does a fantastic job of making her readers feel as if they are actually accompanying...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Feb 08, 2008 Type: User Review |
TOUGH AS NAILS
TR must have been one of toughest men ever to live in the White House. Until you read books like this you really do not know a person. Very interesting!!
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 31, 2008 Type: User Review |
A Great Book About Roosevelt's Character
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 27, 2008 Type: User Review |
Fascinating and Compelling
I couldn't put down Candice Millard's engaging account of Theodore Roosevelt's journey through a hostile and unexplored region of the Amazon along the treacherous River of Doubt. It is an amazing tail that conveys the horror, adventure and...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Miraculous Story, Engaging Writing
Volumes have been written about Theodore Roosevelt the President, soldier, statesman, and adventurer, but none captures the vitality, determination, or the indomitable spirit of this unique American like this thrilling bio/adventure. Former...
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| From: Amazon Posted: Jan 23, 2008 Type: User Review |
Well Research and Well Written
Ms. Millard should be complemented on this her first book. Not only does the story flow (no pun intended) but her side stories and comments add so much to the book itself. One of the problems with writing history based on people's diaries and...
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