Navigating The Amazon: Jungle Expedition
Navigating The Amazon: Jungle Expedition – Theodore Roosevelt, right, and Candido Rondo, second from right, lead the fateful mission to map an uncharted waterway and record natural wonders.
It is considered one of the best surveys of our time. For five months beginning in mid-December 1913, a group of over 100 men, Brazilians and Americans, traveled across the great heartland of South America by land and river, on foot and horseback, by mule, truck, steamboat, boat, boat, launch and canoe, moving supplies; Pack animals and boats over 2,500 miles.
Navigating The Amazon: Jungle Expedition
Rondo has already spent 25 years exploring; building roads, bridges and telegraph lines; and peaceful engagement with marginalized indigenous communities. Library of Congress
How To Visit The Amazon Rainforest From Brazil, Peru, And Ecuador
Two men from very different backgrounds spearheaded this extraordinary endeavor. Theodore Roosevelt, only a few years removed from the presidency of the … Read the rest