Through the Brazilian Wilderness by Theodore Roosevelt, Travel, Special Interest, Adventure, Essays & Travelogues

by Theodore Roosevelt

Overview

At the age of fifty-five, former president Theodore Roosevelt took part in an expedition to the far reaches of the Amazon. Mind you, in time and context this was an extraordinary thing; at this point in history, you'd need to make an expedition into space to get as far away from workaday life as Roosevelt's party went. This book is Roosevelt's journal during the expedition into the unknown in the name of science -- an expedition into very real and very mortal peril.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781598181920
Publisher:	Aegypan
Publication date:	09/01/2006
Pages:	244
Sales rank:	354,504
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1858 - 1919) was an American statesman, author, explorer, soldier, naturalist and reformer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. As a leader of the Republican Party during this time, he became a driving force for the Progressive Era in the United States in the early 20th century. Roosevelt was mostly home schooled by tutors and his parents. Biographer H. W. Brands argues that "The most obvious drawback to the home schooling Roosevelt received was uneven coverage of the various areas of human knowledge". He was solid in geography (as a result of self study during travels) and bright in history, biology, French and German; however, he struggled in mathematics and the classical languages. He entered Harvard College on September 27, 1876; his father told him "Take care of your morals first, your health next, and finally your studies".

Table of Contents

Chapter I The Start 1

Chapter II Up the Paraguay 38

Chapter III A Jaguar-Hunt on the Taquary 62

Chapter IV The Headwaters of the Paraguay 95

Chapter V Up the River of Tapirs 132

Chapter VI Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil 167

Chapter VII With a Mule-Train Across Nhambiquara Land 203

Chapter VIII The River of Doubt 243

Chapter IX Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest 282

Chapter X To the Amazon and Home; Zoological and Geographical Results of the Expedition 321

Appendices

A The Work of the Field Zoologist and Field Geographer in South America 343

B The Outfit for Travelling in the South American Wilderness 353

C My Letter of May I to General Lauro Müller 370

Index 373

Editorial Reviews

Former president Roosevelt's firsthand account, written while travelling, of his adventures on the River of Doubt, a tributary to the Amazon River, in 1914. Roosevelt undertook the journey to map the previously unknown 950-mile river and collect specimens for the American Museum of Natural History, but it quickly became a harrowing test of endurance from which he was lucky to escape alive. Includes an introduction by Roosevelt's great-grandson, who made the identical trip himself in 1992. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Booknews

An exceedingly fascinating story of adventure. IT is the best story...that the many-sided former president of the United States has produced.

The Boston Transcript

Roosevelt has been able to add one more excellent volume to a list which is already a paraiseworthy record.

The New York Times