What began as a natural-history collecting trip for the American Museum became, at Brazil’s invitation, the Roosevelt-Rondon expedition. Roosevelt hunts jaguar on the Taquary, crosses the highland wilderness and Nhambiquara country by mule train, and then joins Colonel Cândido Rondon in canoes down an unmapped tributary of the Amazon, the River of Doubt.
First-hand exploration by a former president, a journey that nearly cost him his life. Download the free EPUB.