The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey

The River of Doubt—it’s a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes by way of one of the treacherous jungles on this planet. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows hang-out its shadows; piranhas glide by way of its waters; boulder-strewn rapids flip the river right into a roiling cauldron.

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on probably the most punishing bodily problem he may discover, the primary descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Collectively along with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most well-known explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt achieved a feat so nice that many on the time refused to consider it. Within the course of, he modified the map of the western hemisphere ceaselessly.

Alongside the best way, Roosevelt and his males confronted an unbelievable collection of hardships, shedding their canoes and provides to punishing whitewater rapids, and enduring hunger, Indian assault, illness, drowning, and a homicide inside their very own ranks. Three males died, and Roosevelt was delivered to the brink of suicide.
The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary occasions in a strong nonfiction narrative thriller that occurs to characteristic one of the well-known People who ever lived.

From the hovering fantastic thing about the Amazon rain forest to the darkest evening of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, right here is Candice Millard’s dazzling debut.