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The River of Doubt by Candice Millard

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Feb 22, 08

Read in February, 2008

I can't imagine any ex-president taking a trip like this. There are some I WISH would take a trip like this, but the bottom line is that Teddy Roosevelt was fearless and I'm glad he was because it makes for a great book.

While much of the peril on Roosevelt's river adventure was due to poor planning, I still wonder how anybody can plan well for a trip down a river that nobody's explored before. It didn't help that Murphy's Law was pretty much in effect during the whole trip.

I thought this was a well-written account of both the trip and a bit of an education about the Amazonian rain-forest as well. Sometimes the educational pieces interfered with the action of the story, but all that really did was made me read through those sections a little faster than normal. Good book!

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