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Author: Candice Millard

Genre: Non- Fiction

Pages: 416

Teddy Roosevelt has just lost the 1912 presidential election while running as a third party candidate. He goes on a speaking tour of South America and is planning to go on a motorboat through the Amazon River. He then gets invited by the Brazilian government to join Cândido Rondon on a trip through the unmapped River of Doubt. Roosevelt loves adventure and he gratefully accepts because he needs to distract himself from his recent election loss. However the trip goes brutally wrong. Find out when you read The River of Doubt.

 

  • It goes through the Amazon Jungle in Brazil

  • The Roosevelt River is about 400 miles in length

  • It was renamed the Rio Roosevelt after the expedition

  • Most of land bordering the Roosevelt River is an indigenous reserve or a national park

  • The area around the Roosevelt River is occupied by the Cinta Larga people

Facts about the river:

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