How Teddy Roosevelt Slew the last Mighty T-Rex (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781484116159)

Still stinging from his recent election loss, former president Theodore Roosevelt sought refuge in the Brazilian jungles in early 1914 on an expedition to trace the last unmapped Amazonian river system, the Rio da D vida or The River of Doubt. Co-commanded by famed Brazilian explorer Colonel Candido Rondon and staffed with Roosevelt's 24-year-old son Kermit, naturalist George Cherrie, and more than a dozen local porters and laborers, the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition was plagued by disaster from its very onset-incompetent planning and inadequate outfitting would result in near mutiny, hunger, death, and even cold-blooded murder. But Roosevelt meets an odd stranger along his ill-fated journey, who tells an astonishing tale that could challenge the very core of modern Natural History. Weakened by illness and starvation, Teddy Roosevelt is caught in a web of unfathomable danger, the results of which would alter his life and the lives of his companions forever.

Author: Mark Paul Jacobs
ISBN-10: 1484116151
ISBN-13: 9781484116159
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 04/13/2013
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.68lbs
Size: 7.99h x 5.24w x 0.62d