The release date for the English version of 'The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey' by
Candice Millard is Oct 2006. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The actual account of Theodore Roosevelt's terrifying journey of one of the world's most perilous rivers, The River of Doubt, is both an amazing adventure novel and a revealing personal picture.
The River of Doubt is a mysterious, dark tributary of the Amazon that winds through one of the world's most dangerous jungles. The river is transformed into a turbulent boiling pot by boulder-strewn rapids, piranhas gliding through its waters, and Indians brandishing poison-tipped arrows in its shadows.
Roosevelt embarked on the most strenuous physical challenge he could discover, the first descent of an uncharted, rapids-choked Amazonian river, after his devastating electoral setback in 1912. Roosevelt, together with his son Kermit and Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, the most renowned explorer of Brazil, achieved an incredible achievement that many at the time found hard to believe. He permanently altered the western hemisphere's map in the process.
Roosevelt and his men had to endure an incredible array of horrors along the trip, including famine, sickness, drowning, and a murder among their own ranks. They also lost their boats and supplies to pounding whitewater rapids. Roosevelt was driven to the verge of suicide after the deaths of three men. One of the most well-known Americans in history is featured in the gripping factual narrative thriller The River of Doubt, which vividly depicts these incredible events.
This is the stunning debut of Candice Millard, taking readers from the breathtaking majesty of the Amazon rain jungle to Theodore Roosevelt's darkest night.