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No American leader has been more enthusiastic in appreciating the wilderness and in conserving our nation's natural treasures than Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919). No other president published more about characteristics and his explorations from it than T. R., in scattered catalogs, such as African Wilderness, and in his many letters, including those accumulated in The Selected Characters of Theodore Roosevelt). Roosevelt the Explorer, by historian and Roosevelt biographer H. Paul Jeffers, is really the only book to provide a comprehensive, lifelong chronicle of the consummate adventurer's exploits and expeditions, which compelled him to traverse a few of our planet's most difficult terrains. Within these lively pages, Roosevelt collects more than 100 parrot specimens in Egypt at time 14; 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 Carry. Jeffers explains T. R.'s efforts as leader, against brutal opposition, to determine an unprecedented system of nationwide parks and also to ensure the safety of America's vast national forests and wetlands from rampant development. In the words of Roosevelt himself, the adventures unfold T. R.'s 1909-1910, 11-month, Smithsonian-inspired safari across Africa, from Mombasa on the Indian Ocean to Khartoum in Egypt, which implemented his two conditions as leader; and his 1913-1914 danger-drenched expedition to map South America's 950-mile River of Doubt (a previously unexplored tributary to the Amazon . com River later renamed Rio Roosevelt in his honor). During the trip, one man drowned, another was murdered, and at fault went insane, fleeing in to the jungle. Roosevelt was blessed to escape alive, nearly drowning and plagued by jungle fever, dysentery, an ulcerated knee, blood poisoning, and malaria.
