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

<p><strong>At the age of fifty-five former president Theodore Roosevelt took part in an expedition to the far reaches of the Amazon.</strong> 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. . . .</p>