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The river of doubt Theodore Roosevelt's darkest journey

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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 t...

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Main Author: Millard, Candice
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Broadway Books, 2005.
Edition:1st paperback ed.
Subjects:
Roosevelt River (Brazil) > Description and travel.
Amazon River Valley > Description and travel.
Rain forests > Amazon River Valley.
Natural history > Amazon River Valley.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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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