Reddit reviews The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

You're thinking of his son Kermit. I'm halfway done with Candice Millard's book about it, River of Doubt, and its been a pretty good listen.

There's a book titled "The River of Doubt" about Roosevelt's journey and both what led up to it and what happened after.

Here's the book description:

"At once 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.

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, Cândido 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."

This is nice but should also add he had horrible asthma as a kid and basically willed himself to stop having it. And oh yeah, a few years before his death — after a Brazilian politician joked to him that it couldn’t be done — led an expedition through an uncharted Amazon river where he and his men were besieged by starvation, disease, and vicious Indian attacks. Book:

https://www.amazon.com/River-Doubt-Theodore-Roosevelts-Darkest-ebook/dp/B000Q9ITGW

The TR posdcasts would have to be like, 5 three hour specials...

All the shit that man did and saw. All the hunting. Exploring the Amazon...

This book is amazing if you're a Teddy Roosevelt fan.

https://www.amazon.com/River-Doubt-Theodore-Roosevelts-Darkest-ebook/dp/B000Q9ITGW/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496160500&sr=8-1&keywords=the+river+of+doubt

I don't know if it's the best nonfiction book I've ever read but looking at your interests I would suggest Germs: Biological Weapons and America's Secret War. True crime with some science and religion.

If you're looking for more history and interesting biographies I liked The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

River of Doubt by Candice Millard, about Teddy Roosevelt's attempt at the first descent of the unmapped tributary of the Amazon. Excellent book.

I love how you still responded after so much time had passed :)


The River of Doubt is what it's called, an excellent book imho.