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Map showing the complete route of the South American journey Roosevelt and Rondon with bush deer. Almost from the start, the expedition was fraught with problems. Insects and disease such as malaria weighed heavily on just about every member of the expedition, leaving them in a constant state of sickness, festering wounds and high fevers.
Kermit Roosevelt Sr. MC (October 10, 1889 – June 4, 1943) was an American businessman, soldier, explorer, and writer. A son of Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States, Kermit graduated from Harvard College, served in both World Wars (with both the British and U.S. Armies), and explored two continents with his father.
Candido Rondon: A friend of the Indians Archived 13 July 2009 at the Wayback Machine is a good site to learn more about Rondon's involvement with Funai. Candido Rondon: Explorer, Geographer, Peacemaker: 1865–1958 has a timeline and good information about Rondon's life and work. Works by Cândido Rondon at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
The Roosevelt-Rondon expedition was the first non-Amazonian-native party to travel and record what Rondon had named the "Rio da Dúvida", then one of the most unexplored and intimidating tributaries of the Amazon. Rondon had spent very little time on the river itself, only discovering its existence several years prior. [7]
A documentary of the expedition led by former President Theodore Roosevelt and Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon to the River of Doubt in 1913-14. Narrated by Oliver Platt. Voices: Alec Baldwin as Theodore Roosevelt, Wagner Moura as Cândido Rondon, and Jake Lacy as Kermit Roosevelt.
It was Zahm who talked President Roosevelt into participating in what came to be known as the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition to South America, and which would also include Theodore's son, Kermit, and Colonel Cândido Mariano da Silva Rondon, to go up the Rio da Dúvida (River of Doubt, now the Roosevelt River). [12]
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The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey is a 2005 book by Candice Millard covering president Theodore Roosevelt's scientific expedition down the River of Doubt (later renamed the Roosevelt River), in Brazil.