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Death on the River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Amazon Adventure Audiobook
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“I did have a murderous trip down South, but it was mighty interesting.”
In October 1913, Theodore Roosevelt arrived in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on a tour of South America. The thrill-seeking adventurer had no idea that he would soon receive an offer he couldn’t refuse: the chance to lead an expedition deep into the Amazon jungle to chart an unmapped river with his son Kermit and renowned Brazilian explorer Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon.
Death on the River of Doubt takes listeners inside the thrilling journey that unfolds as Roosevelt, Rondon, Kermit, and their companions navigate an unpredictable river through an unforgiving jungle. With new threats at every turn, from bloodthirsty piranhas and raging rapids to starvation, disease, and a traitor in their own ranks, it seems that not everyone will make it out alive.
Through it all, the indomitable Teddy Roosevelt remained determined to complete their mission and rewrite the map of the world—or die trying.
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“An audiobook with limited dialogue and a lack of character voices requires both an exciting story and a skilled narration. Happily, the author provides the former, and narrator David de Vries, the latter…De Vries reads with a certain amount of detachment, which befits the precise and unembellished tone of the men’s journals that provided the source material. It’s the story that provides the excitement here.”
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“Thrilling…A stirring, suspenseful true story of dangerous adventure and remarkable survival.”
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“Gripping…death-defying drama.”
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“Edge-of-the-seat…thrill-a-minute.”
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“Hooks readers with suspenseful drama and weaves a background summary of Roosevelt into this compelling adventure story…Highly recommended.”
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“Compelling…Teachers may find [it] useful as a mentor text for writing narrative nonfiction.”
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About Samantha Seiple
Samantha Seiple is the author of several books, including Lincoln’s Spymaster: Allan Pinkerton, America’s First Private Eye, a 2015 Junior Library Guild Selection; Ghosts in the Fog: The Untold Story of Alaska’s WWII Invasion; and Byrd & Igloo: A Polar Adventure. She has worked as a competitive intelligence specialist for a Fortune 500 company, as a librarian, and as a production editor and copy editor. Her education includes degrees in English, journalism, and library and information science.
About David de Vries
David de Vries, an Earphones Award-winning audiobook narrator and veteran stage actor and director, spent three years in the cast of Wicked and was the last Lumiere in the Broadway production of Beauty and the Beast. He has also appeared in numerous films and voiced commercial campaigns for companies large and small, including American Express, AT&T, UPS, Motorola, Georgia-Pacific, Delta Airlines, Coca Cola, and Ford, among others. He can be seen in a number of feature films, including The Founder, The Accountant, Captain America: Civil War, and Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. On television, his credits include House of Cards, Nashville, and Halt and Catch Fire.