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ROOSEVELT, Theodore.
Through the Brazilian Wilderness.
With Illustrations from Photographs by Kermit Roosevelt and Other Members of the Expedition.
Publisher: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1914
Stock code: 68160
Price: £2,500 Currency Conversion
First edition, first impression. Very scarce in the dust jacket. Account of Roosevelt's "zoogeographic reconnaissance" with the Brazilian explorer Rondon to discover if the Rio da Dúvida ("River of Doubt"), flowed into the Amazon. Traversing some of the most dangerous territory of Amazonia the party was successful and the river was renamed Rio Roosevelt, sometimes Rio Teodoro, in his honour.
Large octavo. Original brown cloth, titles to spine and upper board and top edge gilt, others untrimmed. With the dust jacket. Photogravure frontispiece and 48 half-tone plates, one folding and 2 full-page maps. Very slight wear to ends of spine, contents faintly toned. An excellent copy in the unevenly tanned and lightly rubbed jacket with a few small marks and tiny nicks, and a closed tear to the upper spine fold that has been professionally repaired.
