The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

by Candice Millard

Not only was Rondon proud of his soldiers, but he was a humanist and a champion of minority rights. He had also been a victim of racism himself, and would continue to be for most of his life, in spite of all that he had achieved.

“They have simply disappeared in the forest like stones in water. The jungle is jealous and voracious. . .. Of all the possible deaths man can die in the jungle, the most dreaded is that which results from being lost.”

“Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die.”