Death on the River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Amazon Adventure

This account follows Theodore Roosevelt’s dangerous expedition through Brazil’s Amazon region. In October 1913, after arriving in Rio de Janeiro during a South American tour, the twenty-sixth U.S. president undertakes a journey on a perilous, previously unmapped river. The book recounts the expedition and includes archival photographs, maps, charts, a timeline, source notes, and an index. Its focus is Roosevelt’s Amazon adventure and the river he helped chart.