The Age of Exploration Book Discussion (In Person) - The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

This afternoon at 3:00 p.m., the library will be discussing the book "The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey", by Candice Millard. After his humiliating election defeat in 1912, 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, Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt accomplished a feat so great that many at the time refused to believe it. In the process, he changed the map of the western hemisphere forever.