![]() 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. Indians armed with poison-tipped arrows haunt its shadows piranhas glide through its waters boulder-strewn rapids turn the river into a roiling cauldron. The River of Doubtit is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world. ![]() ![]() NATIONAL BESTSELLER At once an incredible adventure narrative and a penetrating biographical portraitthe bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic brings us the true story of Theodore Roosevelt's harrowing exploration of one of the most dangerous rivers on earth. ![]()
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