No American president has been more enthusiastic in appreciating
the wilderness and in conserving our nation s natural treasures
than Theodore Roosevelt (1858 1919). And no other president wrote
more about nature and his explorations of it than T. R., in
scattered books, such as African Wilderness, and in his countless
letters, including those collected in The Selected Letters of
Theodore Roosevelt). Roosevelt the Explorer, by historian and
Roosevelt biographer H. Paul Jeffers, is the only book to offer a
comprehensive, lifelong chronicle of the consummate adventurer s
exploits and expeditions, which compelled him to traverse some of
our planet s most difficult terrains. Within these lively pages,
Roosevelt collects more than a hundred bird specimens in Egypt at
age fourteen; hunts grizzlies and other game in the wilds of the
Dakota territory; founds the Boon and Crockett Club, the nation s
first conservation group; and inspires the first Teddy Bear.
Jeffers describes T. R. s efforts as president, against fierce
opposition, to establish an unprecedented system of national parks
and to ensure the safety of America s vast federal forests and
wetlands from rampant development. In the words of Roosevelt
himself, the adventures unfold T. R. s 1909 1910, eleven-month,
Smithsonian-inspired safari across Africa, from Mombasa on the
Indian Ocean to Khartoum in Egypt, which followed his two terms as
president; and his 1913 1914 danger-drenched expedition to map
South America s 950-mile River of Doubt (a previously unexplored
tributary to the Amazon River later renamed Rio Roosevelt in his
honor). During the trip, one man drowned, another was murdered, and
the culprit went insane, fleeing into the jungle. Roosevelt was
lucky to escape alive, nearly drowning and plagued by jungle fever,
dysentery, an ulcerated leg, blood poisoning, and malaria.
Illustrated with rare cartoons and photos, and filled with
hairbreadth escapes, exotic animals and locales, and unparalleled
excitement, Roosevelt the Explorer brings to life T. R. s thrilling
and often controversial exploits as no other book has done since
the twenty-sixth president took his pen in hand over eighty years
ago."
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