The river of doubt - Candice Millard

NATIONAL BESTSELLER At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait-the bestselling author of River of the Gods brings usthe true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration
of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth.

"A rich, dramatic tale that ranges from the personal to the literally earth-shaking."-The New York Times

The River of Doubt-it is 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,
rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil's
most famous explorer, Cndido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat
so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed
the map of the western hemisphere forever.

Along the way, Roosevelt 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. The River of Doubt brings alive these extraordinary events in a
powerful nonfiction narrative thriller that happens to feature one of the most famous
Americans who ever lived.

From the soaring beauty of the Amazon rain forest to the
darkest night of Theodore Roosevelt's life, here is Candice Millard's dazzling debut.

Look for Candice Millard's latest book, River of the Gods.