Teddy Roosevelt and the River of Doubt - Part 1

The Explorers Podcast

Matt Breen

Society & Culture, History, Education

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

In 1913, former president Theodore Roosevelt agreed to go a ‘delightful holiday’ tour of the Amazon region. But once there, he couldn’t resist the urge to do something bigger and bolder. The result would be the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition – an attempt to trace the path of a recently discovered river in the heart of the Amazon Basin called the Rio da Dúvida – aka the River of Doubt. Interested in advertising on the Explorers Podcast? Email us at [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to an AirWave Media Podcast.
0:30.0	The best thing I got on D-POP.
1:00.0	That's like my favorite outfit at the moment.
1:02.0	I got it on D-POP.
1:16.0	Hello and welcome to the Explorers Podcast.
1:18.0	Today we are going to talk about Theodore Roosevelt, Explorer.
1:22.0	Yes, Teddy Roosevelt was an explorer.
1:24.0	And this is not just some story of a rich famous guy on a safari or a cushy boat ride.
1:28.0	This is going to be a tale with starvation, hostile natives, murder,
1:32.0	and the first mapping of a mysterious river in the heart of the Amazon rainforest.
1:36.0	And Theodore Roosevelt, former president of the United States, will be in the thick of it all.
1:40.0	It is, to be honest, a really fun story.
1:44.0	So, to start today, I have a few notes.
1:46.0	First, I want to mention that this story takes place in Brazil, which means there will be lots of Portuguese names.
1:52.0	That means some bad pronunciations from me.
1:54.0	Sorry about that.
1:56.0	Second, I have put a map on our website, ExplorersPodcast.com, so that you can get a looksy at where all this stuff is happening.
2:02.0	But keep in mind that all the names of the places that I mentioned are really kind of unimportant.
2:06.0	At the core of our story, we have a group of men who are going to travel by boat, upriver, to the very edge of civilization in the Amazon.
2:14.0	From there, it will be hundreds of miles trekking overland to the headwaters of a newly discovered river.
2:20.0	And then it will be mapping that river.
2:22.0	That is it.
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