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The River of Doubt

Theodore Roosevelt was once Americas youngest president. He was admired a lot as a child. He set out on this journey in the December of 1913. He carried a dose of morphine with him for years. When he was on this journey he got very ill with malaria. One night he was laying on his rusted cot and he concluded that the time had come to take his own life, he did not go any farther with this thought. He got malaria by slicing his leg on a boulder. He set sail for South America in the fall of 1913, this was not quite a year after his failed attempt to become president again. When Roosevelt reached Brazil the country's foreign minister offered him a chance to explore the Rio da Duvida (The River of Doubt), this was a chance for redemption. This journey nearly killed Theodore.