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.
