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The river of doubt : Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey / Candice Millard.
The true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing 1914 exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth, 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 tributary of the Amazon. He 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. Yet he accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it.--From publisher description.
Defeat
Opportunity
Preparation
On the open sea
A change of plans
Beyond the frontier
Disarray and tragedy
Hard choices
Warnings from the dead
The unknown
Pole and paddle, axe and machete
The living jungle
On the ink-black river
Twitching through the woods
The wild water
Danger afloat, danger ashore
Death in the rapids
Attack
The wide belts
Hunger
The myth of "
beneficent nature"
"
I will stop here"
Missing
The worst in a man
"
He who kills must die"
Judgment
The cauldron
The rubber men
A pair of flags.
Opportunity
Preparation
On the open sea
A change of plans
Beyond the frontier
Disarray and tragedy
Hard choices
Warnings from the dead
The unknown
Pole and paddle, axe and machete
The living jungle
On the ink-black river
Twitching through the woods
The wild water
Danger afloat, danger ashore
Death in the rapids
Attack
The wide belts
Hunger
The myth of "
beneficent nature"
"
I will stop here"
Missing
The worst in a man
"
He who kills must die"
Judgment
The cauldron
The rubber men
A pair of flags.
Item details
- ISBN: 0767913736 (pbk.)
- ISBN: 9780767913737 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xi, 416 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition: First paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, 2005.
Contents / Notes
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [395]-402) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Defeat
Opportunity
Preparation
On the open sea
A change of plans
Beyond the frontier
Disarray and tragedy
Hard choices
Warnings from the dead
The unknown
Pole and paddle, axe and machete
The living jungle
On the ink-black river
Twitching through the woods
The wild water
Danger afloat, danger ashore
Death in the rapids
Attack
The wide belts
Hunger
The myth of "beneficent nature"
"I will stop here"
Missing
The worst in a man
"He who kills must die"
Judgment
The cauldron
The rubber men
A pair of flags.
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