Theodore Roosevelt, Explorer of the Amazon
The book details a post-presidential journey into the unknown.
After losing the 1912 election, Theodore Roosevelt decided to go where no ex-president had gone before. He, his son Kermit, and a team of men set out to explore an uncharted section of the Amazon. Not everyone returned, and it’s astonishing that any of them survived.
Candice Millard details the harrowing ordeal in The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s…
