Arizona sentinel and Yuma weekly examiner., 1914-10-22
WELL KNOWN WRITER AND
 EXPLORER PRAISES ROOSEVELT

Charles Sheldon, whose books on "The Wilderness of the Upper Yukon"
 and "The Wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands," have given ex-
 pression to the years which he spent in Yukon, hunting and exploring, has
 written his impression of MT. Roose-
 velts "Hunter-Naturalist in the Bra zilian Wilderness" and particularly [ the trip down the River of Doubt
 MT. Sheldon says:
 { Theodore Roosevelt's narrative of his experiences as A Hunter-Natura, list in the Brazilian Wilderness run ming serially in Scribner's Magazine,
 is the most fascinating description of , South American exploration that has
 ever been written. have been forum
 ate in having read in advance the last
 chapters, to appear in the October
 and November numbers of the Magaz-
 zine, in which he tells of his trip down l the River of Doubt
 Perhaps the most interesting book of travel ever given to the world is Darwin's narrative of his adventures
 on the Beagle, portion of which is
 devoted to South American expert enceS. The other classics are Bates's
 Naturalist on the River Amazon and Waterton's' Wanderings in South
 America etc. These and other splen-
 did books have revealed the South continent and wilderness when little in general was known about them. The natives, customs, topography, eli
 mate, forests, rivers, natural history,
 and geology, together with sweeping
 cancellations, were brought before
 us by calm analysis, often with Scien-
 tific precision, in a manner of illus trative facts which aroused our inter-
 est Darwin's great breadth of nature
 and the depth of his insight often i'm pelled him to a revelation of the hid den mysteries of the wilds But it
 has remained for MT. Roosevelt to
 to impart to us the essence of the tropic wilderness, the mystic emotions
 evoked by it's wonderful charm.
 'Tn clear-cut narrative, with modest restraint, he tells us of the personnel of the party, the equipment, the me thods of surveying the character of ri ho dangers and difficulties of descending it's numerous rapids, and all the ex- periences necessary to accomplish this arduous exploratory trip. From beginning to end we are compelled thoroughly to feel the realities of it.
 But it is in the background in which he sets his narrative that we are most deeply impressed Thus. the tale of exploration, though sufficient ly complete, is so woven in that it is almost incidental to descriptions ol the vast tropical orest-descriptions so spontaneous and vivid that we see it golden under the sun, dark and dripping under the rain, vast, silent, 1 luXuriant with it's great trees and mas, ted vines, and at times brilliant with it's flowers. We see it, now ghastly | under the silver moon, now mysteri- | ous in the enshrouding mists. We become familiar with the forest life the birds and their music, the timid | animals not often seen, the insects, | both those that are beautiful and those | which ravage the health and comfort | of mankind. This great primeval for est, sometimes stately in it's grandeur, i often chaotic in it's confused vegeta- tion, this ever-varying wilderness, this is what MT. Roosevelt reveals to us. He causes us to see it with emo- tiOns similar to his own. AS a result We are carried along in the realities of his feelings and experiences, and realize this wonderful picture of the varied charms of the tropical wilds. No other writer has given us such vivid impression of it.
 When these articles, with such ad- ditions and changes as MT. Roosevelt may decide, are combined into a book, it will become a classic of South American travel and exploration It will be still more-a permanent { work of litrature.
 Isolation in the wilds sooner or later kindles the haunting memories of nature love at home, more humble though it may be. I know of no pas sage in all MT. Roosevelt's writings more significant of one side of the ( man, or more beautiful than the fol- owing revelation, written (spontan- ( eOusly, am sure) toward the end of ( lis trip in the Brazilian wilderness: (
 "'The north was calling strongly to ( he three men of the north-ROcky ( Dell Farm to Cherrie, Sagamore Hill ( 70 me; and to Kermit the call was (