The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission

About this film

LibriVox recording of The Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific-Expedition and the Telegraph Line Commission by Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon. (Translated by Richard George Reidy; Edwin Douglas Murray.) Read in English by KevinS; ToddHW; CodySpain; Rita Boutros; TriciaG; Leni. The Roosevelt–Rondon Scientific Expedition was the famous survey that took place in 1913-14 to follow the path of the Rio da Dúvida ("River of Doubt") in the Amazon basin. The expedition was jointly led by Theodore Roosevelt, the former President of the United States, and Colonel Cândido Rondon, the Brazilian military engineer known for his explorations of the Western Amazon Basin and his lifelong support of Brazilian indigenous populations. Almost from the start, the expedition was fraught with problems: diseases left the explorers in a constant state of sickness; the canoes were unsuitable to the rapids and were lost; the food provisions were unsufficient, and the encounters with animals and wild native tribes, a source of concern. Of the 19 men who went on the expedition, only 16 returned. On October 1915, the Brazilian leader of the expedition, Colonel Cândido Rondon gave three public lectures in Rio de Janeiro,…

Directors & creators

Candido Mariano da Silva Rondon

Subjects

librivox; audiobooks;amazon; Native American; roosevelt-rondon expedition

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