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　　At once an incredible adventure narrative and apenetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is thetrue story of Theodore Roosevelt’s harrowing exploration of one ofthe most dangerous rivers on earth.
　　The River ofDoubt—it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakesthrough one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. Indiansarmed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows; piranhas glidethrough its waters; boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into aroiling cauldron.
　　After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set hissights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, thefirst descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of theAmazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil’s most famousexplorer, C?ndido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished afeat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In theprocess, he changed the map of the western hemisphereforever.

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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