The river of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
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The River of Doubt 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, Candido 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.
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Natural history -- Amazon River Valley.
Presidents -- United States -- Biography.
Rain forests -- Amazon River Valley.
Roosevelt River (Brazil) -- Description and travel.
Roosevelt, Theodore, -- 1858-1919 -- Travel -- Brazil -- Roosevelt River.
Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition -- (1913-1914)
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Millard, C., & Ward, J. (2006). The river of doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey. First Anchor books (Broadway Books) edition. New York [N.Y.], Anchor Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Millard, Candice and Jeffrey, Ward. 2006. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey. New York [N.Y.], Anchor Books.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Millard, Candice and Jeffrey, Ward, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey. New York [N.Y.], Anchor Books, 2006.
MLA Citation (style guide)Millard, Candice, and Jeffrey Ward. The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey. First Anchor books (Broadway Books) edition. New York [N.Y.], Anchor Books, 2006.
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| 250 | |a First Anchor books (Broadway Books) edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York [N.Y.] : |b Anchor Books, |c 2006. | |
| 300 | |a xi, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations, maps, portraits ; |c 21 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-402) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Breaking away. Defeat ; Opportunity ; Preparation ; On the open sea ; A change of plans -- Into the wilderness. Beyond the frontier ; Disarray and tragedy ; Hard choices ; Warnings from the dead -- The descent. The unknown ; Pole and paddle, axe and machete ; The living jungle ; On the ink-black river ; Twitching through the woods ; The wild water ; Danger afloat, danger ashore ; Death in the rapids -- Iron cruelty. Attack ; The wide belts ; Hunger ; The myth of "beneficent nature" ; "I will stop here" -- Despair. Missing ; The worst in a man ; "He who kills must die" ; Judgment ; The cauldron -- Deliverance. The rubber men ; A pair of flags. | |
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