The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. NATIONAL BESTSELLER At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penet rating biographical portrait--the bestselling author of Destiny of the Repu blic brings us 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 s nakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indians arm ed 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 a n unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Ke rmit and Brazil's most famous explorer, Cndido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Ro osevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to belie ve 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 live.

Product Info

ISBN: 0767913736

ISBN-13: 9780767913737

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing G.

Year: 2006

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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