false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179451224m/919297.jpg 78508 11 <b>At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, <i>The River of Doubt</i> is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.</b><br><br>The River of Doubt&#8212;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.<br><br>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&#8217;s most famous explorer, Cândido 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.<br><br>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. <i>The River of Doubt</i> brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.<br><br>From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt&#8217;s life, here is Candice Millard&#8217;s dazzling debut. 980007 2005 The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey total:1570|5:524|4:732|3:264|2:44|1:6| 1570 6434 2331 504 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 5 3 false Mon Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Oct 05 09:51:52 -0700 2007 Mon Oct 22 10:09:15 -0700 2007
There is one scene that I think sums up how impressive TR was. It comes when they are slightly more than half way through thei...more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 3 2 false Thu Jul 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 06 19:55:55 -0700 2008 Sun Jul 13 20:51:11 -0700 2008 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 4 false Tue Feb 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jun 05 09:11:04 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 11 13:21:24 -0700 2009 Theodore Roosevelt's leadership and charisma is a well documented part of American history. Although I'm sure I learned about him in my required history classes, and I've been to Mount Rushmore, I can't say that I knew much about him beyond the fact that he was a Rough Rider, a president, a la...more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 1 false Wed Dec 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Sep 12 21:04:38 -0700 2008 Wed Dec 24 17:38:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 5 1 false Thu Apr 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 26 12:34:42 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 06:35:30 -0700 2008
A notorious loather of non-fiction, I might just have found the one to break the cycle. River of Doubt was a brilliant, well-crafted narrative of Theodore Roosevelt's arduous journey down a previously unmapped tributary of the Amazon River. ...more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 1 false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Aug 26 22:06:22 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 17 14:04:01 -0700 2008 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 5 1 false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Mon Jan 14 05:48:59 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 15:20:02 -0800 2008 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 1 false Sun Feb 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Feb 18 21:51:28 -0800 2008 Tue Feb 26 14:50:46 -0800 2008 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 3 1 false Tue May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun May 13 23:17:02 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 29 10:52:20 -0700 2007 more...]]> 919297 0385507968 9780385507967 72 19 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179451224m/919297.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/919297.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 1 false Thu Feb 21 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Jan 11 10:09:10 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 07:28:50 -0800 2008
While much of the peril on Roosevelt's river adventure was due to...more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 1 false Tue Jul 01 07:43:32 -0700 2008 Tue Jul 01 07:49:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 5 1 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 19:06:11 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 19:06:11 -0800 2008 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 1 false Fri Jul 04 06:10:20 -0700 2008 Tue Oct 28 12:29:14 -0700 2008 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 5 1 false Mon Jan 26 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 21:29:59 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 27 02:46:29 -0800 2009 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 1 false Mon Aug 25 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 10:30:44 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 13:06:55 -0700 2008 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 1 false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 09:30:36 -0700 2008 Wed Oct 01 09:33:18 -0700 2008 1 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 5 1 false Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 08:06:40 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 08:07:47 -0800 2009 http://kellylowenstein.wordpress.com/200...

Today marks Day Two of the Obama presidency and almost exactly a century since William Howard Taft replaced Teddy Roosevelt as U.S. president.

For Roosevelt, his departure from the land’s highest and most powerful political office m...more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 0 false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Aug 25 05:27:49 -0700 2009 Tue Aug 25 05:37:25 -0700 2009 more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 0 false Wed Jul 15 10:47:43 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 15 10:59:02 -0700 2009 A well-written account of a part of American history that is little known. This book documents former President Teddy Roosevelt's 1914 journey to South America which culminated in his exploration (along with Brazilian military officer and explorer Col. Rondon) of the "River of Doubt"...more...]]> 78508 0767913736 9780767913737 1475 473 4.10 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1170953796m/78508.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/78508.The_River_of_Doubt_Theodore_Roosevelt_s_Darkest_Journey 4 1 false Wed Jun 24 12:35:37 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 24 12:41:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=919297