Autor: Candice Millard
Editora: Anchor Books
Ano: 2005
Tamanho: 21 x 14cm
Páginas: 416
ISBN: 9780767913737
Idioma: Inglês
Descrição: Sem marcas, dobras ou grifos. Capa sem marcas ou dobras. Miolo firme. Ilustrado. 

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 Brazils most famous explorer Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, Roosevelt faced an unbelievable series of hardships: they lost their canoes and supplies to punishing whitewater rapids, and endured starvation, Indian attack, disease, drowning, and a murder within their own ranks. In the end, three men would die, and Roosevelt would be brought to the brink of suicide, but the expedition accomplished a seemingly impossib...