Into the Amazon

By Larry Rohter,

Book cover of Into the Amazon: The Life of Candido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist

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Candido Rondon is by any measure the greatest tropical explorer in history. Between 1890 and 1930, he navigated scores of previously unmapped rivers, traversed untrodden mountain ranges, and hacked his way through jungles so inhospitable that even native peoples had avoided them-and led Theodore Roosevelt and his son, Kermit, on…

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Marian Lindberg

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I don’t only love books about writers. Candido Rondon led Theodore Roosevelt down the River of Doubt in the Brazilian Amazon, continually making strategic, life-saving decisions based on his knowledge of indigenous peoples (he was one) and years of experience laying telegraph cable through the rainforest. Yet history reduced Rondon to Roosevelt’s “guide” and the river was named after Roosevelt, not Rondon.

I learned some of the truth about Rondon while researching my first book, set in the Amazon, but Rohter gives us a fuller and gripping account of Rondon’s life, courage, and beliefs, including his atypical dedication to peaceful…

From Marian's 3 favorite reads in 2023.