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Article: The River of Doubt: Into the Unknown Amazon.(Brief article)(Book review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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The River of Doubt: Into the Unknown Amazon. Candice Millard. Little, Brown. [pounds sterling]18.99. xi + 431 pages. ISBN 0-316-72475-0. This title, which was first published in the US, is about one of the country's most colourful presidents, Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt, the embodiment of American imperialism, sought consolation after loosing the 1912 presidential election (he had stood as a third party, 'Progressive', candidate). With his son, a Brazilian naturalist and a small party he set out for Brazil's rain forests to discover the course of the 'River of Doubt', a tributary of the Amazon and to ...