The great Age of Exploration was virtually over.
President in the fall of 1912, this time as the candidate of the newly formed Bull Moose (Progressive) Party. It was a little over a year since his stinging election defeat seeking a 3rd term as U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt stepped into one of 7 heavy dugout canoes in the jungles of Brazil and set out to explore a river known only to native tribes, the Rio da Duvida (River of Doubt). The paperback edition shown in the photo above was published by Broadway Books, an imprint of The Doubleday Broadway Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.ġ01 years ago today, on February 27, 1914, former U.S. The River of Doubt – Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey by Candice Millard, historian and former writer and editor for National Geographic, was originally published in hardcover by Doubleday in 2005.
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