RIVER OF DOUBT: THEODORE ROOSEVELT'S DARKEST JOURNEY
by MILLARD, CANDICE
List Price: HK$ 247.00
¡@ISBN
9780385507967
¡@Subject
WORLD HISTORY
¡@Publisher
DOUBLEDAY US
¡@Publication
2005
¡@Edition
Hardcover
¡@Version
Original
¡@Description
An incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find - the unmapped, rapids-choked Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil's most famous explorer, C?ndido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. Along the way, Roosevelt and his men faced an unbelievable series of hardships - losing their canoes and supplies; enduring starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning; a murder within their own ranks and Roosevelt at the brink of suicide. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a powerful nonfiction narrative, featuring one of the most famous Americans who ever lived.
