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The River of Doubt

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  At once an incredible adventure narrative and a

  penetrating biographical portrait, The River of

  Doubt is 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 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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