Into the Amazon: The Life of Cândido Rondon, Trailblazing Explorer, Scientist, Statesman, and Conservationist
by Larry Rohter
480 pages
W.W. Norton & Company
Published: May 2023

Unless you’ve read Candice Millard’s thrilling “The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey” you are unlikely to know much about the man featured in this commendable new biography.

Cândido Rondon (1865-1958) was a Brazilian explorer and military officer responsible for installing telegraph lines across huge, often unexplored, regions in Brazil. But outside his native country he is best-known for leading a harrowing thousand-mile expedition with former US president Teddy Roosevelt through an unforgiving and uncharted area of the Amazon basin….

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