The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey
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At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portrait, The River of Doubt is the right tale of Theodore Roosevelt’s upsetting exploration of one of the most treacherous rivers on planet.
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; stone-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 legendary explorer, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so fantastic that many at the time refused to judge 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 legendary 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.
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Pasteing together a series of magazine/National Geographic articles does not make a novel. I was very excited to read this book because of the primary theme, but, I was momentously disappointed. I read up to page 82 and could no longer suffer the torture. I felt as if I was in a haze while reading, due to the long mundane details about hardtack etc that detracted from the tale rather than enhancing it. teddy bear has been dealt an injustice here.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I thought this would be a fascinating adventure strory with some cool history and natural science thrown in. As a replacement for it was a dull, repetitive slog through the jungle that had me wishing the whole group would be slaughtered by the indians so the book would end! How many times do I need to be told mosquitoes cause malaria, T.R. was disappointed by his election loss, etc.? Where was the editing?
Reader’s Rating: 2 / 5
teddy bear should have been more involved in the details of preparation for this expedition.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5
The tale could have been cut in half. I am not sure what the point was of the tale. I couldn’t wait for it to end.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book brings forwards an avalanch of information rarely establish today. I paid particular attention to the relationship between the US of North America and the rest of the Americas to the South. It is like a window into a world gone by, that one can only hope never to return. It is plagued with contradictions and inflated statements of bravado by the leader, Roosevelt’s actions and recollections, are nearly that of a charlatan. But, it is like a window into the soul of the man made out to be much more than he really was during his River of Doubt expedition.
Firstly, Miss Millard helps perpetuate ignorance in this book, i.e. when she calls indigenous peoples of the Amazons–Indians. Is she still living October 12, 1492, when Cristoforo Colombo, whose name now was Cristobal Colon, NOT Christopher Columbus, as he was by then a Spaniard theme, believed they had arrived in India. Ingnorant of the fact Colon had NOT arrived in India, he called the continents peoples Indians. That is as much I want to say about what we today, in the 22nd century, should call the peoples of indigenous or Native American ancestry from Canada to the Southern most tip in South America.
Statements made by Roosevelt of “no civilized men had explored the river or the interior of Brazil”. This is either ingnorant or milgnant with the filth of prejudice and dismissal of 400 years of Spaniard and Portuguess explorers, who preceeded Roosevelt’s expedition. And to dismiss a much better man, a superb man in character and leader of men, Col. Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon and additional Brazilians, who already had traversed the interior years before him or any of the others, like father Zahm, is laughable and borderline charlatant.
Perhaps, Col. Rondon’s pictures next to Roosevelt are testimony of his feelings towards Roosevelt and his companions. His body language is most careful and diplomatic. But, one cannot escape his body language. From his posture and look on his eyes revealing how he felt indignity–disconfort standing next to Roosevelt. Perhaps, the result of what he had to suffer from the arrogance and ingnorance, and the duplicituous and misguided notion that they were not civilized or cultured or that the life of a camarada or Brazilian was lesser.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5