River of doubt
Subtitle: Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey
By: Candice Millard
Publisher: Random House Large Print
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 670
ISBN-13: 9780375728433
Subjects: Travel; Description and travel; Rain forests; Natural history; Presidents; Biography; Descriptions et voyages; Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914); Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition (1913-1914) fast (OCoLC)fst01405823
Description: The River of Doubt -- it is a black, uncharted river 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.
Notes: Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defeat; title: Opportunity; title: Preparation; title: On the open sea; title: A change of plans; title: Beyond the frontier; title: Disarray and tragedy; title: Hard choices; title: Warnings from the dead; title: The unknown; title: Pole and paddle, axe and machete; title: The living jungle; title: On the ink-black river; title: Twitching through the woods; title: The wild water; title: Danger afloat, danger ashore; title: Death in the rapids; title: Attack; title: The wide belts; title: Hunger; title: The myth of "beneficent nature"; title: "I will stop here"; title: Missing; title: The worst in a man; title: "He who kills must die"; title: Judgment; title: The cauldron; title: The rubber men; title: A pair of flags.