BOOK DISCUSSION

Monday, September 13, 2010 @ 7 p.m. in the downstairs meeting room.

Title: River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
by Candice Millard

The River of Doubt -- it is a black, uncharted tributary of the Amazon that snakes through one of the most treacherous jungles in the world.

After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt set his sights on the most punishing physical challenge he could find, the first descent of an unmapped, rapids-choked tributary of the Amazon. Together with his son Kermit and Brazil's most famous explorer, Candido Mariano Da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. 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.

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